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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. Convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid.
10. The sign language used in the United States.
13. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
14. An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. In a hasty and foolhardy manner.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
23. Small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. A framework for holding wood that is being sawed.
33. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
35. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
42. Being one more than forty.
43. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
44. A Russian river.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
55. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
57. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
58. A trivial lie.
59. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
61. A doctor's degree in theology.
62. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
63. Of or belonging to an aecium.
64. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
3. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
4. The month following March and preceding May.
5. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
6. Type genus of the Vespidae.
7. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
8. A pass between mountain peaks.
9. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. A fraudulent business scheme.
12. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
20. A desert in central Asia.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
25. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
27. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
28. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. A powerful operating system developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
31. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
32. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
34. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
37. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
40. In bed.
41. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
52. An inferior dog or one of mixed breed.
53. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
54. A quantity of no importance.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
60. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
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