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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
9. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
13. The month following February and preceding April.
14. Big-eyed scad.
15. Again but in a new or different way.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A quantity of no importance.
21. An informal term for a father.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
35. By bad luck.
36. In bed.
38. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
40. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
41. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
46. Someone whose business is advertising.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
57. Cut the head of.
60. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
62. The capital and largest city of Japan.
63. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
66. United States feminist (1885-1977).
67. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
68. Jordan's port.
69. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
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1. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. A small nail.
4. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
5. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
6. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
7. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
9. Unknown god.
10. Type genus of the Anatidae.
11. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
12. Distant in either space or time.
17. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
22. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
29. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
30. Seed again or anew.
32. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
33. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
43. The income arising from land or other property.
44. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
47. Performance of moral or religious acts.
48. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
50. English monk and scholar (672-735).
51. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.
56. Any small compartment.
58. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
59. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
61. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
64. A state in midwestern United States.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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