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1. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
4. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
9. Forming viscous or glutinous threads.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. True firs.
15. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
16. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
18. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
19. Jordan's port.
21. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. A state in midwestern United States.
26. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
28. An informal term for a father.
29. Very small species of shrubs of southern hemisphere.
34. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
37. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. The act of scanning.
42. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
43. Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio.
46. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. A genus of Platalea.
57. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
62. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
63. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
64. Advanced in years.
65. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
66. Capital and largest city of Italy.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. Little known Kamarupan languages.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
4. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) v 1.
7. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
8. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
9. Something (especially a game) that is played again.
10. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
11. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
12. Not only so, but.
17. A port city in southwestern Iran.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
32. A Hindu prince or king in India.
33. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
40. Not in operation or operational.
41. Of high moral or intellectual value.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
44. Fiddler crabs.
45. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
46. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
47. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
48. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
56. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
58. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
59. A slight amount or degree of difference.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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