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1. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
4. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
10. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
13. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
14. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. A genus of Ploceidae.
18. (anatomy) Of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart).
19. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
20. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
22. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
23. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
25. Having help.
26. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
27. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
29. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
30. Being one more than one hundred.
32. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
34. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
48. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
54. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
58. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
60. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
61. The sixth month of the civil year.
65. 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.
67. Extremely pleasing.
69. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
70. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
71. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
72. A small cake leavened with yeast.
73. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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1. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Orion and Columba.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
3. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
4. Fiddler crabs.
5. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
6. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
9. Salt pork from the back of a hog carcass.
10. Tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
11. Thin and fit.
12. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
17. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
21. A leisurely walk (usually in some public place).
24. Represent in bodily form.
26. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
28. A state in midwestern United States.
31. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
33. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. An expression of greeting.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
41. An accountant certified by the state.
44. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
55. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
56. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
57. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
60. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
62. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
63. Having leadership guidance.
64. The cry made by sheep.
66. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
68. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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