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1. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
4. English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766).
10. A master's degree in library science.
13. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
15. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
16. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
18. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
19. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
20. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
21. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.
23. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
26. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter.
29. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
33. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
36. 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.
37. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
38. Towards the side away from the wind.
39. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
42. An island republic on the island of Iceland.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
49. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
51. A long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs.
55. Jordan's port.
56. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
59. The cry made by sheep.
60. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
61. Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts.
63. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
64. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
65. Relating to bone or to the skeleton.
66. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
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1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
2. Covered with frost.
3. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
4. The tenth month of the Moslem calendar.
5. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
6. A doctor's degree in education.
7. Gather, as of as crops.
8. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
9. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
11. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
12. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
17. English monk and scholar (672-735).
22. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
24. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
27. An associate degree in applied science.
28. Speaking a Slavic language.
30. Among the largest bony fish.
31. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
32. Advanced in years.
34. Type genus of the Amiidae.
35. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
40. Baby bed with high sides.
41. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
43. French engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923).
44. 36th President of the United States.
46. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
47. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
48. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
50. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
52. A slender double-reed instrument.
53. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
58. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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