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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.
10. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. Take in solid food.
14. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
15. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
16. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
17. Coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude.
18. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
19. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
22. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
25. Belonging to the front part.
28. Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931).
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
35. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
36. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
43. Large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes.
46. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
50. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
52. Fly a plane.
56. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
57. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
60. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
61. A quantity of no importance.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
65. A branch of the Tai languages.
66. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
67. The capital and largest city of Japan.
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1. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
2. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
3. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
4. The commonest type of solidified lava.
5. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
6. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
7. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
8. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
9. A doctor's degree in education.
10. A city in northern India.
11. Type genus of the Ranidae.
12. By bad luck.
20. The capital city of Vietnam.
21. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
24. Before noon.
26. Any competition.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. The sixth month of the civil year.
34. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
37. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
38. A human female who does housework.
40. Being four more than ninety.
44. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
45. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
47. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
48. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
55. (prefix) Outside or outer.
58. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
59. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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