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1. The federal department that administers federal program dealing with better housing and urban renewal.
4. Very attractive.
10. An honorary degree in science.
13. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
14. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement (1792-1866).
19. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
21. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
22. God of love and erotic desire.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
27. A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
30. Lower in esteem.
34. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
35. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
44. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
45. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
48. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
50. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
51. United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954).
55. A large fleet.
59. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
60. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
62. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
63. A negative.
66. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
67. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
68. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
69. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
3. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
4. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. Not in action or at work.
8. A daughter of your brother or sister.
9. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
10. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
11. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
12. An informal term for a father.
18. Jordan's port.
20. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. An informal term for a father.
28. Not only so, but.
29. A republic in western South America.
31. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
32. An enclosed space.
33. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. A state in northwestern North America.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
43. United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971).
46. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
47. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
49. The female reproductive cell.
52. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
53. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
54. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
56. Having been read.
57. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
58. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
61. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
65. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
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