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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
5. A human female who does housework.
9. A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities.
13. Common Indian weaverbird.
14. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
15. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
16. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
17. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
19. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
20. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
22. Excreta (especially of insects).
24. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
26. A Nilotic language.
27. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
40. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. Either extremity of something that has length.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
55. Having two axes.
57. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
59. An informal term for a father.
60. Any of various units of capacity.
61. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
64. The fatty flesh of eel.
65. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
66. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
4. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
5. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
6. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
7. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
8. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
9. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
10. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
11. City in Sudan.
12. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
18. Creation that is created again or anew.
21. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
28. In bed.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
33. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
34. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
35. The month following March and preceding May.
36. The cry made by sheep.
38. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
44. Enthusiastic approval.
46. A genus of Limacidae.
47. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
49. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
50. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
51. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
53. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
54. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. A master's degree in business.
62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
63. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
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