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1. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
4. Cosmopolitan genus of ferns.
12. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
15. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
16. (Babylonian) In older pantheon.
17. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
18. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
19. The inner sole of a shoe or boot.
20. Satisfy (thirst).
22. A nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas.
24. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
25. A print obtained from a line drawing.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
31. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
34. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
37. A philosopher who specializes in ethics.
40. Using speech rather than writing.
42. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
43. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
44. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
50. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
59. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
67. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. The face of a timepiece.
71. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
73. Being one more than six.
74. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
75. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
76. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
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1. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
2. Strip the skin off.
3. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
4. A negatively charged atom.
5. Make a dent or impression in.
6. Small air-breathing arthropod.
7. Type genus of the Agonidae.
9. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
10. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
11. Sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.
12. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
13. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
14. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
21. Of a pale purple color.
23. To an ample degree or in an ample manner.
26. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
27. Hear or try a court case anew.
29. Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936).
32. A nation in northern North America.
33. Someone who sets snares for birds or small animals.
35. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
36. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
38. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
39. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
45. The skin that covers the top of the head.
47. A person of unquestioning obedience.
48. The cry made by sheep.
51. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. English monk and scholar (672-735).
57. An ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor.
58. Israeli general and statesman (1915-1981).
60. An investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets.
61. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
63. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
64. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
65. Set down according to a plan.
66. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
68. Enlarged prostate.
72. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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