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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
9. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
13. An informal debt instrument.
14. Indigo bush.
15. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
16. Tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.
18. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
19. A Russian river.
20. Capital of modern Macedonia.
22. A doctor's degree in religion.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. An informal term for a father.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
36. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
38. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
40. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
42. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
44. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
45. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
48. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
52. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
58. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
61. 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.
63. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
65. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
66. How long something has existed.
67. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
69. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
70. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
71. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
72. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
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1. Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405).
2. A United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932).
3. Doomed to extinction.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
6. Wearing or provided with clothing.
7. Having been read.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. Ragout of game in a rich sauce.
10. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
11. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
12. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
17. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
21. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
23. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
26. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
33. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. Of or relating to a creed.
49. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. The ending of a series or sequence.
55. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
56. On or toward the lee.
59. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
60. Pulled or drawn tight.
62. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
68. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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