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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. Archaic name for England or Great Britain.
10. God of the underworld.
13. A small piece of cloth.
14. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. A unit of pressure.
17. Located inward.
19. Prolific Italian dramatist (1707-1793).
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Innumerable but many.
28. 10 grams.
29. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
31. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
32. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
35. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
37. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. Wild and domestic cattle.
57. The residue that remains when something is burned.
58. (informal) Of the highest quality.
59. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
60. An informal term for a father.
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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
2. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
3. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
4. A genus of European owls.
5. 1 species.
6. Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence.
7. A strong emotion.
8. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
9. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
10. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
11. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
18. God of wealth and love.
20. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
23. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
25. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
26. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
27. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
33. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
34. An accidental happening.
36. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
38. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
40. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
42. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
43. Lower in esteem.
45. Widely known and esteemed.
47. A blind god.
48. Flat tableland with steep edges.
49. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
51. A light touch or stroke.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
55. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
56. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
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