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1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. 1 species.
10. Not reflecting light.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Having branches.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. Deprived of parents by death or desertion.
18. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
23. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
25. Squash bugs.
28. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
31. Being one more than one hundred.
35. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
36. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
38. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
39. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
40. A radioactive transuranic element.
42. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
47. The month following March and preceding May.
49. The sound made by corvine birds.
51. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
52. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
54. Lyrebirds and scrubbirds.
59. Used in combination.
60. Leather with a napped surface.
61. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
64. A master's degree in business.
65. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
66. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
68. A decree that prohibits something.
69. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
70. Having gaps or spaces.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
5. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
6. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
7. United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942).
8. 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.
9. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
20. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
27. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
29. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
30. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
32. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. Again but in a new or different way.
41. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
43. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
46. (Welsh) A warrior god.
48. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
50. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
51. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
55. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
56. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
57. Having been read.
58. Soft creamy white cheese.
62. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
63. An informal term for a father.
67. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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