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1. A licensed medical practitioner.
4. Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water.
9. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. A person who weeps.
15. A boy or man.
16. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
17. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
18. A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
22. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
28. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
29. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
31. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
40. A sharp change in direction.
41. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
44. An associate degree in nursing.
46. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
48. A master's degree in business.
50. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
51. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
54. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
56. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
57. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
58. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
59. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
66. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
68. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
69. Seed of a pea plant.
70. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
5. Relating to the Urdu language.
6. The vein in the center of a leaf.
7. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
8. A severe or trying experience.
9. The highest level or degree attainable.
10. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
11. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
12. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. Very dark black.
32. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
35. Baby bed with high sides.
37. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
38. A state in the eastern United States.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.
45. An informal term for a father.
47. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
48. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
49. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Jordan's port.
55. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. A light touch or stroke.
61. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
62. A small piece of cloth.
64. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
67. Unknown god.
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