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1. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
4. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
9. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
14. A town in southwestern Idaho.
15. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
16. Made of fir or pine.
18. Failure of some tissue or organ to develop.
19. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
22. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
23. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
27. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
30. Not in good physical or mental health.
32. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
37. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
39. Cry loudly, as of animals.
40. English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833).
43. A person of subnormal intelligence.
44. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
46. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
49. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
53. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
54. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
57. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
62. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
63. Lower in esteem.
64. A city in northern India.
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1. A blind god.
2. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
3. Taken or to be taken at random.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
6. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
7. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
8. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
10. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
11. Shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans.
12. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
17. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
25. Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams.
28. A French abbot.
29. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
31. The Judeo-Christian God.
33. An article deposited as security.
34. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
35. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
36. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
38. The cry made by sheep.
41. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
42. United States space station.
45. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
47. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
48. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. Dearly loved.
52. Offering fun and gaiety.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
56. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
58. A small piece of cloth.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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