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1. A licensed medical practitioner.
4. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
14. Bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
21. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. Attractiveness to the opposite sex.
28. The beginning or early stages.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
35. Seed of a pea plant.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
48. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
49. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
51. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
52. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
58. Of southern Europe.
61. The basic unit of money in Nicaragua.
63. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
65. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
66. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
69. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
70. A young woman making her debut into society.
71. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
72. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
7. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
8. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
9. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
10. The sixth month of the civil year.
11. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
12. Wearing or provided with clothing.
17. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
19. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
23. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
25. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
29. Type genus of the Nepidae.
30. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.
33. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
34. God of death.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. A fraudulent business scheme.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. An accountant certified by the state.
43. A city and port in northern Jutland.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
47. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases.
48. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
50. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. indicate by signs.
55. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
56. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
57. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
60. An informal term for a father.
62. The cry made by sheep.
64. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
67. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
68. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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