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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. In a hasty and foolhardy manner.
10. A flexible container with a single opening.
13. Seed of a pea plant.
14. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
15. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. A person who gains weight.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
21. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A state in midwestern United States.
26. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
33. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
34. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
39. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
40. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
41. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
43. A light touch or stroke.
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
47. A Loloish language.
50. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
53. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
57. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
60. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
61. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
62. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
65. An honorary degree in science.
66. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
67. Type genus of the Muridae.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. The food served and eaten at one time.
3. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
4. A motley assortment of things.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A share of something.
7. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
8. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
9. Member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence.
10. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
11. The sixth month of the civil year.
12. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
20. Produced by a manufacturing process.
22. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
24. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
27. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
28. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
29. A decree that prohibits something.
30. Offering fun and gaiety.
31. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
32. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers.
51. Of or relating to near the ear.
52. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
54. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
55. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
56. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
58. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
59. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
63. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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