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1. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
4. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
10. An accountant certified by the state.
13. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
14. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories.
21. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
25. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
27. A city in southeastern South Korea.
28. (Russian) Small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried.
32. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
34. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
36. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
46. From the kapok tree.
50. In bed.
51. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
52. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
56. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
58. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
61. The cry made by sheep.
62. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
63. A port city in southwestern Iran.
65. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
66. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
67. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
68. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
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1. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.
2. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
3. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
4. An attribute that fits a person for something.
5. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
6. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
7. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
8. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
9. Half the width of an em.
10. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
11. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
12. Advanced in years.
18. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
20. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
24. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.
26. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
31. The content of cognition.
33. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
40. Young of domestic cattle.
41. South American cavy.
42. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
43. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
48. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
49. A genus of Ploceidae.
53. A French abbot.
54. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
55. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
57. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. 10 grams.
60. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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