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1. Standard temperature and pressure.
4. Speak to someone.
10. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
14. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
15. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
16. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
18. The square of a body of any size of type.
20. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
23. (Welsh) A warrior god.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
26. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
29. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
34. Any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones.
36. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
38. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
41. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
46. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
47. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
54. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
56. A city in northern India.
60. Squash bugs.
62. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
65. An associate degree in applied science.
66. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
67. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
69. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
70. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
71. A port city in southwestern Iran.
72. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
3. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
4. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
5. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
6. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
9. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
10. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
11. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
12. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
17. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
19. Of or relating to a creed.
22. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
28. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
31. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
32. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
33. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
35. Half the width of an em.
37. An informal term for a father.
39. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. Type genus of the Anatidae.
45. A state in midwestern United States.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. Again but in a new or different way.
53. God of death.
55. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
57. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
58. Uttering in an irritated tone.
59. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. A decree that prohibits something.
68. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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