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1. British informal term.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
10. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
13. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
14. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
15. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
16. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
18. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.
19. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
20. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
21. An accountant certified by the state.
23. A flowering shrub.
25. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. A Russian river.
29. Capital of Armenia.
33. Being or having an unknown or unnamed source.
38. A battle between the French and an alliance of Spaniards and Swiss and Venetians in 1512.
40. A state in New England.
41. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
42. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
43. Tag the base runner to get him out.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
49. (informal) Exceptionally good.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
56. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
59. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
61. A mythical Greek hero.
64. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
65. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
66. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
68. (informal) Roused to anger.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
70. Ludicrously odd.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Relating to or caused by a virus.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian').
4. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
5. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
6. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
7. A city in northwestern Syria.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. An associate degree in applied science.
10. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
11. The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music.
12. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
17. (pathology) Tending to become more severe or wider in scope.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. Wife of Balder.
26. National capital of Solomon Islands.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
32. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
34. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
35. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
36. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
37. A light touch or stroke.
39. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
48. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
50. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
52. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
53. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
54. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
55. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. An informal term for a father.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. The first month of the year.
63. Being one more than ninety.
67. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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