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1. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
4. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
9. A French abbot.
13. A pass between mountain peaks.
14. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
15. A sudden short attack.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce.
18. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
19. (Judaism) A candelabrum with seven branches used in ceremonies to symbolize the seven days of creation.
22. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
25. United States abstract painter influenced by oriental calligraphy (1890-1976).
28. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants.
32. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
33. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
35. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. Unknown god.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
44. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
45. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
48. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
49. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
53. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
56. Type genus of the Anatidae.
57. Type genus of the Gavidae.
60. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
61. A recognizable kind.
62. Cause to be embarrassed.
63. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
3. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
4. Away from the right path or direction.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
7. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
8. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
9. A large fleet.
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
11. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
12. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
20. A drama set to music.
21. Be seated.
23. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
24. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
26. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. A Russian river.
30. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
31. A quantity of no importance.
34. Jordan's port.
38. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
39. Made from baking chocolate or cocoa powder and milk and sugar.
41. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
43. An edict of the Russian tsar.
44. An open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food.
46. Type genus of the Ranidae.
47. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
50. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
51. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
55. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
58. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. A state in the eastern United States.
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