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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Waterproof hip boots (sometimes extending to the chest) worn by anglers.
10. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. The sign language used in the United States.
14. Type genus of the Otariidae.
15. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
16. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
18. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. Black tropical American cuckoo.
20. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
22. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. An honorary degree in science.
28. Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit.
31. Wood of a sumac.
34. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
37. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
39. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
46. Type genus of the Percidae.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. A deficiency of red blood cells.
55. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
58. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
61. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
62. The capital and largest city of Japan.
63. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
65. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
66. A local computer network for communication between computers.
67. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
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1. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
2. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
3. Take by theft.
4. Something that wobbles.
5. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
6. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. The basic unit of money in Iran.
9. A deep bow.
10. By bad luck.
11. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
12. True firs.
17. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
21. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
29. Type genus of the Anatidae.
30. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
32. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
38. A master's degree in business.
40. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
41. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
44. Avatar of Vishnu.
45. The cry made by sheep.
47. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
48. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
50. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. A quantity of no importance.
54. Very dark black.
56. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
57. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
59. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
64. Informal terms for a mother.
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