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1. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
4. Jordan's port.
9. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
13. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
14. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
15. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
16. A deep prolonged loud noise.
18. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
19. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
20. Not affected by wear.
22. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
24. Irish dancer (1818-1861).
25. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
26. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
31. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
34. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
35. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
37. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
38. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. A white trivalent metallic element.
41. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
43. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
48. The residue that remains when something is burned.
49. An informal term for a father.
53. Informal terms for a mother.
54. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
56. (informal) Exceptionally good.
58. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
62. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
63. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
64. A primeval personification of air and breath.
65. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
66. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Sound of strumming.
2. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
3. United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972).
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. A festival featuring African-American culture.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Growing in two parts or in pairs.
8. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
9. Take away the weapons from.
10. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
11. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
12. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
17. (Roman Catholic Church) The supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
21. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
23. Before noon.
27. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
28. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
32. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
33. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. Loss of the ability to swallow.
40. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
43. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
44. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. Cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for Cuban independence from Spain (1853-1895).
48. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
50. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
51. The brightest star in Cygnus.
52. A particular environment or walk of life.
55. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
57. The month following July and preceding September.
59. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
60. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
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