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1. 32nd President of the United States.
4. Wear away through erosion or vaporization.
10. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
18. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
28. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A light touch or stroke.
34. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
37. Small genus of succulent annual herbs found on sandy shores of North America and Europe.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
43. Kauri pine.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. Wife of Balder.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
53. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
56. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
59. The quantity contained in a keg.
60. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
61. A port city in southwestern Iran.
62. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
63. Take in solid food.
64. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
65. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
3. A column of light (as from a beacon).
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
7. Before noon.
8. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
9. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
10. 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.
11. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
12. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
17. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
19. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
22. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
23. Relating to or caused by a virus.
24. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
30. By bad luck.
33. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
36. Fallow deer.
38. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
39. A flowering shrub.
40. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
44. Small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches.
46. 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.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
52. Using speech rather than writing.
54. (British slang) An absolute certainty.
55. A city in northern India.
57. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
58. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. Informal terms for a mother.
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