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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum.
10. Not reflecting light.
13. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
14. The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia).
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
18. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
27. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
30. Constitution of the human body.
33. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
34. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. A master's degree in business.
40. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
45. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
60. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
61. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
63. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
64. The basic unit of money in Albania.
65. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
66. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
4. Seed of a pea plant.
5. A genus of Vespertilionidae.
6. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce.
7. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
8. Speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation.
9. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
20. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
22. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
24. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
26. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
28. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A state in northwestern North America.
38. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
39. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
41. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
42. Of or belonging to an aecium.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. Type genus of the Anatidae.
46. A province in north-central China.
48. A French abbot.
49. Related to or located at the back.
51. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
53. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
54. In bed.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
58. A slight amount or degree of difference.
62. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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