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1. An opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker.
5. Make or become free of frost or ice.
10. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. A design fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design to be transferred to the surface.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
21. A hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk.
22. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Nalfon) used in the treatment of arthritis and other painful inflammatory disorders.
24. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. Away from the mouth or oral region.
33. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. Related on the mother's side.
39. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
40. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
42. The month following January and preceding March.
43. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
45. A soft silvery metallic element.
47. Type genus of the Gavidae.
52. Obvious and dull.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
57. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
63. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
65. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
66. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
67. A port city in southwestern Iran.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
2. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A language group of the Hokan family.
5. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
6. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
7. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
8. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
9. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
10. A statute in draft before it becomes law.
11. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
12. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
18. A city in northeastern Ohio.
20. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
26. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
29. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
30. The airforce of Great Britain.
31. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
32. A young woman making her debut into society.
34. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Common Indian weaverbird.
41. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
44. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
45. An honorary degree in science.
46. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
53. A city in northern India.
54. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
60. (informal) Roused to anger.
61. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
64. An associate degree in nursing.
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