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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. The dialect of Sotho spoken by the Basotho.
12. Of southern Europe.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
16. Type genus of the family Elephantidae.
17. The month following February and preceding April.
18. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
19. A sign of something about to happen.
20. Water frozen in the solid state.
21. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
22. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
24. (psychology) An urge to accept or approach a situation or an object.
28. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles.
29. The brightly colored garments of a jockey.
33. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
38. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
39. Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.
42. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
43. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
45. Affected manners intended to impress others.
47. Myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil.
49. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
50. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
55. Being nine more than forty.
59. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
61. Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815).
63. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
64. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
67. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
68. (informal) Of the highest quality.
69. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
71. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
72. A boy or man.
73. A decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing.
74. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction.
2. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
3. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
4. The second month of the Hindu calendar.
5. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower.
6. Run away secretly with one's beloved.
7. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
8. Select as an alternative.
9. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
10. A bell that is held in the hand.
11. Someone who guards the entrance to a building.
12. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
13. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
14. Clean with one's bill, of birds.
23. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
25. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
26. Any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body.
27. Relating to or affecting the viscera.
30. Conducive to peace.
31. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
32. Included seven times in every 19 years.
34. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
35. Stubbornly unyielding.
36. Type and only genus of the family Tytonidae.
37. A branch of the Tai languages.
40. Become imbued.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
44. Administer an oil or ointment to.
46. A particular kind (as to appearance).
48. A contorted facial expression.
51. The third month of the civil year.
52. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
53. Not still wet.
54. A city in northwestern Switzerland.
56. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
60. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
62. A thrusting blow with a knife.
65. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
66. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
70. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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