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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
10. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
13. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
14. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
15. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
16. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
17. The term during which some position is held.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
21. Of southern Europe.
22. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A state in New England.
27. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. With rapid movements.
35. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
37. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
40. Water frozen in the solid state.
41. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. The bill in a restaurant.
45. An informal term for a father.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
51. Shift from one side of the ship to the other.
55. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
59. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
62. Jordan's port.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
66. Informal terms for a mother.
67. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
69. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
70. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
71. A severe or trying experience.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Not reflecting light.
5. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
6. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
7. Type genus of the Clupeidae.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
10. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
11. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
12. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
20. Beyond what is natural.
23. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
26. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
28. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
32. In bed.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. (informal) Exceptionally good.
38. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
39. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. Any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers.
50. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
52. Visionary British poet (1757-1827).
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
56. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
57. Avatar of Vishnu.
58. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
60. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
61. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
68. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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