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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Filled with fear or apprehension.
10. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
13. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
14. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
15. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
16. A primeval personification of air and breath.
18. Resembling the shape of a cup.
20. Being three more than fifty.
21. Before noon.
23. Of southern Asia.
24. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
26. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A Loloish language.
33. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. State in northeastern India.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
42. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
43. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
55. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
56. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
59. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
62. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
65. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
66. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
68. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
69. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
70. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
71. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
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1. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
2. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
3. Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
6. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
7. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
8. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.
9. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
10. Armor plate that protects the chest.
11. An African antelope closely related to the waterbuck.
12. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
17. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
19. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
22. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
25. A rapid bustling commotion.
27. Indigo bush.
30. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
34. How long something has existed.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
44. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. Wood of a sumac.
52. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
54. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. Being nine more than ninety.
57. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
58. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
60. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
61. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
63. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
64. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
67. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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