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1. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
5. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
9. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
13. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
16. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
17. The sixth month of the civil year.
18. Two items of the same kind.
19. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. The cry made by sheep.
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
28. How long something has existed.
30. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
34. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
36. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
38. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
39. Giant shipworms.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
46. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
48. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
52. Obvious and dull.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
57. A city in central New York.
61. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
62. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
63. An essential amino acid found in proteins.
65. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
66. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
67. A large fleet.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Stalk of a moss capsule.
3. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
4. Squash bugs.
5. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
6. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
7. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
8. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
9. A severe or trying experience.
10. The second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
11. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
12. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
23. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
26. The basic unit of money in Iran.
27. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
29. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
35. Jordan's port.
37. An informal term for a father.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. A master's degree in business.
47. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
53. A city in northern India.
54. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
55. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
58. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
59. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
60. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
64. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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