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1. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
5. Indicating the most important performer or role.
10. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
13. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
14. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
15. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
16. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
17. Goddess of fate.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. State in northeastern India.
21. United States abolitionist (1786-1865).
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
26. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
29. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
31. Continuing or remaining in a place or state.
35. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
42. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
44. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
45. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
48. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
59. (archaic) A fitting reward.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
64. Fiddler crabs.
65. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece.
67. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
68. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
69. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
2. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
3. The probability of a specified outcome.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
5. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
6. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
7. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
8. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
9. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
10. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
11. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
12. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
20. Informal terms for a mother.
22. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
24. A light touch or stroke.
27. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
28. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
33. The residue that remains when something is burned.
34. An affirmative.
36. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
38. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
39. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
41. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
43. Lacking motor coordination.
44. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
47. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
49. Having winglike extensions.
50. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
52. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
56. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
57. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
61. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
62. (informal) Of the highest quality.
66. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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