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1. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
4. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
9. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
13. Take in solid food.
14. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
15. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
16. Singing jazz.
18. Immediately past.
19. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
20. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
21. 16 ounces.
24. Having help.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. An associate degree in nursing.
38. One who works hard at boring tasks.
41. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
44. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
46. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
48. A French abbot.
50. A means of serving.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
58. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
60. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
61. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
62. A genus of Ploceidae.
65. God of the earth.
66. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
67. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
68. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
69. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. Flat tableland with steep edges.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. Indicating the most important performer or role.
4. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
5. The sign language used in the United States.
6. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
7. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
8. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
9. A city in northern Mexico on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso.
10. A large fleet.
11. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
12. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
17. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
22. A bachelor's degree in religion.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. Heal or recover.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
33. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
40. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
42. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
43. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
45. With no effort to conceal.
47. Found pleasant or attractive.
49. English monk and scholar (672-735).
51. An open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers.
52. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
53. Distant in either space or time.
55. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
56. In bed.
57. A small cake leavened with yeast.
59. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
63. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
64. A public promotion of some product or service.
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