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1. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
4. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
10. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
15. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
16. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
18. A sudden numbing dread.
19. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
20. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
22. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
24. A motley assortment of things.
27. A form of Japanese poetry.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
31. A light touch or stroke.
33. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
39. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
41. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. A French abbot.
46. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
60. An affirmative.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
63. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
64. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
65. By bad luck.
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1. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
2. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
3. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
4. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
9. Enthusiastic approval.
10. A warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps.
11. English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992).
12. A particular environment or walk of life.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
26. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
29. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. A genus of Ploceidae.
36. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
37. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
38. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
40. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
42. The cry made by sheep.
45. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
47. Lower in esteem.
48. A Muslim council of state.
49. Jordan's port.
50. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
51. Advanced in years.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. The food served and eaten at one time.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
57. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
58. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
59. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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