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1. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
5. 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.
10. Injured by bites or stings.
13. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
14. Arm again.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
17. A Spanish river.
19. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
21. An ancient board game resembling backgammon.
25. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
26. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
37. Slightly open.
39. An informal term for a father.
41. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
43. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
44. (informal) Roused to anger.
48. Short and fat.
54. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
55. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
58. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
59. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
60. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
61. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. Baby bed with high sides.
4. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
5. A small amount of residue.
6. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
7. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
8. A large ax with a broad cutting blade.
9. Before noon.
10. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
11. In the Roman calendar.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
18. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
24. A Hindu prince or king in India.
27. A Hindu prince or king in India.
28. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
32. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
33. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
38. Avatar of Vishnu.
40. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
42. A city in central Tanzania.
45. Jordan's port.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Jordan's port.
49. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
50. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
51. Type genus of the Majidae.
52. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
53. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
56. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
57. A light touch or stroke.
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