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1. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
4. European herb resembling vetch.
10. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
13. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
14. Confined to bed (by illness).
15. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
16. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
18. Of or relating to a dialect of Sotho or the Bantu people who speak it.
20. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps.
26. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
28. The cry made by sheep.
29. Using speech rather than writing.
32. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
35. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
41. A port city in western South Korea on the Yellow Sea.
44. A city in northern India.
45. A former French coin of low denomination.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
49. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
53. A son of your brother or sister.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
57. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
60. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
61. A three-year law degree.
62. Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers.
63. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
64. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
65. American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
66. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
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1. A city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. The short weak cry of a young bird.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
6. A state in north central United States.
7. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'.
9. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
11. Tropical Asian starlings.
12. Divulge information or secrets.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. (India) Usually in combination.
22. Spray very finely.
25. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
27. A small sc or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth).
30. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
31. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
33. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
34. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
39. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
40. A genus of Paridae.
41. A state in north central United States.
42. The middle of the day.
43. First woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928).
44. Tropical Asian starlings.
48. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
50. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
51. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
52. In or of the present month.
54. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
55. A small tuft or lock.
58. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
59. Used of a single unit or thing.
60. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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