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1. An Asian river between China and Russia.
5. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
13. Not widely known.
14. An informal term for a father.
15. The protruding part of the lower jaw.
16. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
18. Informal terms for a mother.
19. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
20. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
21. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
23. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
24. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
36. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
43. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
45. A Loloish language.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. Perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves.
51. A Swiss house.
54. Utter obscenities or profanities.
55. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
57. Remove the tusks of animals.
60. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
61. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
62. A city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal.
64. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
65. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
68. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
69. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
70. God of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
2. God of death.
3. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
4. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. Fallow deer.
7. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
8. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. Tall hat.
11. (informal) Rural and uncouth.
12. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
17. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. The act of scanning.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A Mid-Atlantic state.
38. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
40. The capital of Morocco.
44. Consisting of fine particles.
46. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
47. (informal) Rural and uncouth.
48. One of two alternative forms of a genes that can have the same locus on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative traits.
50. (informal) A man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric.
52. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
53. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
56. A person who makes use of a thing.
57. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
58. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
59. God of love and erotic desire.
63. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
66. Half the width of an em.
67. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
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