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1. The herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis.
4. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
10. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
13. A unit of pain intensity.
14. The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. Wood of any of various alder trees.
18. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
19. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
20. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
22. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
23. An ancient port city in southwestern Spain.
26. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
35. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
37. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
39. The galley or pantry of a small ship.
40. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
50. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
52. Occurring during the middle of the week.
54. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
55. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
58. The cry made by sheep.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
62. The act of putting something in working order again.
65. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
66. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
2. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
3. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
4. A short literary or musical composition.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill.
9. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
10. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
21. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
27. Type genus of the Ranidae.
28. Go "ding dong", like a bell.
30. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
31. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
32. The chance to speak.
34. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
36. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
38. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
41. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
45. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
46. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Jordan's port.
51. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
53. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
56. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
57. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
61. A person forced to flee from home or country.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
64. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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