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1. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
4. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
9. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. A system of solmization using the solfa syllables.
15. A city in northern India.
16. Slightly open.
18. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
19. A written proposal or reminder.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
22. The superior of a group of nuns.
24. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
30. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
31. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
35. A person forced to flee from home or country.
36. An associate degree in applied science.
38. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
40. A transuranic element.
41. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
43. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
45. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. Extremely robust.
51. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
52. Put a new facing on, as of a garment.
54. The father of your father or mother.
57. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
61. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
64. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
65. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
69. A decree that prohibits something.
70. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
71. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
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1. By bad luck.
2. A Hindu prince or king in India.
3. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
6. A written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court law asking for the grievance to be redressed.
7. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
8. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
9. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
10. American novelist (1909-1955).
11. Weapons considered collectively.
12. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
17. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.
25. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
26. The month following July and preceding September.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
32. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
33. (prefix) Within.
34. At a specific prior time.
37. An associate degree in nursing.
39. (British slang) Cafe.
42. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
44. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.
45. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
46. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
48. Something causes misery or death.
53. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
55. Type genus of the Ranidae.
56. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
58. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
59. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
62. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
66. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
67. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
68. 16 ounces.
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