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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. God of wealth and love.
15. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
16. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. Tear or be torn violently.
20. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
23. Conforming to truth.
24. A radioactive transuranic element.
26. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
29. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A flexible container with a single opening.
36. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. Covered with paving material.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
47. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
50. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
52. Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.
56. (informal) Of the highest quality.
57. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
60. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
61. An enclosed space.
62. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
63. Bound or secured closely.
64. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
65. Resembling a serpent in form.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface).
2. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
3. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. A local computer network for communication between computers.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
9. Someone who operates a barge.
10. A city in northwestern Syria.
11. God of fire.
12. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
17. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
21. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
22. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A state in northwestern North America.
28. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
30. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. God of death.
39. A large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America.
40. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. Type genus of Cycadaceae.
46. Selected as the best.
48. Time during which some action is awaited.
49. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
51. A large number or amount.
53. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
54. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. An informal term for a father.
58. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
59. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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