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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. An effortful attempt to attain a goal.
10. The cry made by sheep.
13. God of the Underworld.
14. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. (microbiology) An infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid.
18. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. Of or relating to herbs.
22. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
24. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
27. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
28. Material used to daub walls.
31. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
32. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
36. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
37. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
43. Fallow deer.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
52. 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.
53. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. A genus of Indriidae.
63. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
64. Tag the base runner to get him out.
65. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
67. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
68. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
69. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete.
2. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
3. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
6. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
8. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
9. Strike with a flat object.
10. God of wealth and love.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
17. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
21. Gull family.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
29. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
33. A tight-fitting headdress.
34. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
42. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
44. Used of a single unit or thing.
47. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. Being in competition.
51. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
57. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
58. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
59. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
62. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
66. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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