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1. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
15. American professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948).
16. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
19. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
20. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
21. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
22. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
24. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
27. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
28. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
39. A rapid bustling commotion.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
46. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
58. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
60. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
62. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
64. A byproduct of inflammation.
66. Elegant and stylish.
67. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
68. American pioneer photographer famous for his portraits.
69. Noisy talk.
70. A doctor's degree in religion.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
4. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
5. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
6. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
9. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
10. A board with the alphabet on it.
11. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
12. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
17. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
23. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
25. Covered with paving material.
26. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. English monk and scholar (672-735).
30. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
31. Tag the base runner to get him out.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
37. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
38. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
41. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
42. Offering fun and gaiety.
45. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
47. United States poet (1892-1950).
48. (law) A gift of personal property by will.
50. God of wealth and love.
52. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
54. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
56. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
57. Make small marks into the surface of.
59. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
61. A doctor's degree in education.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
63. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
65. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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