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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
10. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
13. The month following September and preceding November.
14. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
18. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
19. Having leadership guidance.
20. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
21. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
23. Coins collectively.
24. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
30. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
36. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
37. Tropical African and Indian herbs.
40. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
41. A genus of Indriidae.
44. Constituting the full quantity or extent.
46. A woman of refinement.
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
51. Divulge information or secrets.
55. Cut off from a whole.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
60. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
61. By bad luck.
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1. Any of various devices for taking hold of objects.
2. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
3. A wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women.
4. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. Lower in esteem.
9. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
10. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
17. Used of men.
22. An associate degree in nursing.
25. A doctor's degree in optometry.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
28. An Asian river between China and Russia.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909).
34. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
35. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
43. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
45. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
48. The food served and eaten at one time.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
52. A human limb.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
56. Unknown god.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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