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1. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
4. Appeal or request earnestly.
9. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
15. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
16. A chemical agent for use in chemical reactions.
17. The state of being honored.
19. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
20. (football) Of advancing the ball by throwing it.
22. English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899).
23. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
25. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
27. An artifact designed to be played with.
28. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Childcare during the day while parents work.
43. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
45. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
47. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
49. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
53. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
56. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
57. How long something has existed.
58. A port city in southwestern Iran.
60. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
61. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
62. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
63. A partially opened flower.
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1. Very large red gum tree.
2. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
3. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
4. Pay for something before receiving it.
5. Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path.
6. Informal terms for a meal.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
9. Battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.
10. Highly excited.
11. Having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky.
12. Encircle or bind.
18. A drama set to music.
21. Wood of a sumac.
24. Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal.
26. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
31. Type genus of the Amiidae.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
37. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
38. A popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies.
40. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
41. A state in northwestern North America.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
46. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
47. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. A small nail.
50. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
51. The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
55. A shape that sags.
59. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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