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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing.
10. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
14. Arctic foxes.
15. Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep.
16. A decree that prohibits something.
17. Of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people.
19. A short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play.
22. Type genus of the Canidae.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. The state of existing and being localized in space.
32. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
34. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
35. The eleventh month of the civil year.
36. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
38. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
39. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
41. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
44. A state in northwestern North America.
47. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
51. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
53. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
56. Fallow deer.
57. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
60. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
62. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
64. A master's degree in fine arts.
65. Jordan's port.
66. Chief port of Yemen.
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1. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
2. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
3. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
4. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
5. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
6. An electrically charged particle.
7. A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile).
8. Adult female chicken.
9. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
11. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
12. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
26. Mother goddess.
29. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
30. A three-tone Chadic language.
31. Noisy talk.
33. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
37. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
38. Adult female chicken.
40. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
42. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
43. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
45. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
46. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
55. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. Unknown god.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
63. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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