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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. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
9. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
13. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
16. The probability of a specified outcome.
17. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
18. God of love and erotic desire.
19. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
21. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
23. (informal) Roused to anger.
26. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
28. A soft silvery metallic element.
29. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
33. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
37. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
38. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
40. A Mid-Atlantic state.
42. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
50. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
53. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
57. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
60. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
61. Flat and uninspiring.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. The month following January and preceding March.
65. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
66. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
67. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
2. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
3. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. State in northeastern India.
5. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
6. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbon with the general formula CnH(2n+2).
10. Located in or toward the back or rear.
11. Fallow deer.
12. The second largest city in Tunisia.
20. Common Indian weaverbird.
22. About three feet long exclusive of tail.
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
25. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
27. Advanced in years.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
32. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
35. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
36. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. An associate degree in applied science.
43. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
44. Being one more than ninety.
45. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
48. Jordan's port.
49. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
51. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
52. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
53. Before noon.
54. (British slang) Cafe.
55. In bed.
56. A small cake leavened with yeast.
58. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
59. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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