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1. A form of address for a married woman.
4. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
10. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
15. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
16. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
18. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
19. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
21. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
30. Type genus of the Juglandaceae.
34. A stiff sharp-pointed plant process.
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
37. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
38. An honorary degree in science.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
46. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
50. American naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960).
54. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
58. A bottle with a stopper.
61. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
62. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
63. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
66. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
67. A small piece of cloth.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
6. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
7. A light touch or stroke.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. Disparaging terms for the common people.
10. A young horse.
11. A Loloish language.
12. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
17. Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl.
20. An expression of greeting.
22. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
23. Avoid and stay away from deliberately.
25. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
26. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
29. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
31. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
32. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
33. The act of scanning.
35. A large number or amount.
39. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
40. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
43. God of death.
44. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
45. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
52. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
53. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
57. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
59. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
64. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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