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1. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
4. No longer active or practicing.
10. A unit of pressure.
13. Considerate and solicitous care.
14. Related on the mother's side.
15. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
18. A sign of something about to happen.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. Obvious and dull.
27. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
32. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
33. English monk and scholar (672-735).
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
40. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
45. In an unnatural eery manner.
48. Feeling mild pleasurable excitement.
50. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
52. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
61. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
62. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
63. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
64. Make less active or intense.
67. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
68. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
69. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. (Irish) The sea personified.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. A genus of Ploceidae.
7. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
8. A genus of Mustelidae.
9. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
10. The capital and largest city of Jordan.
11. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
12. An atom having a valence of one.
20. In bed.
22. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
28. A warning against certain acts.
30. Any competition.
31. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
38. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
39. An honorary law degree.
41. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
43. Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America.
44. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
46. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
47. Being one more than fifty.
49. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
51. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
52. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
54. Make an etching of.
55. The act of scanning.
56. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
60. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
66. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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