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1. An honorary degree in science.
4. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
11. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
15. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
16. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
17. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
18. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
19. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
21. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
23. Either of the two main stops on a pipe organ.
25. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
27. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
28. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
31. The event of being born.
35. Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.
37. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
38. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
39. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
43. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
44. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
48. (India) Not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society.
50. Any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants.
51. A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
55. (Greek mythology) God of the heavens.
57. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
61. Type genus of the Majidae.
64. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
65. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish.
69. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
70. An orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation.
72. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
74. An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus).
75. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
3. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
4. The supreme commander of a fleet.
5. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
6. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
7. Related by blood.
8. A port city in southwestern Iran.
9. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. (of hair) Groomed with pomade.
12. By bad luck.
13. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
14. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
20. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
22. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
24. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
26. Beneath the surface of the sea.
29. Of little importance or influence or power.
30. Related on the father's side.
32. A town in southwestern Idaho.
33. A long chair.
34. Submerged freshwater perennials.
36. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
40. Affecting things past.
41. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
42. United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925).
45. Involving or resulting from calcification.
46. Aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia.
47. Make lighter or brighter.
49. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
52. Of or relating to the process of hearing.
56. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
58. Avatar of Vishnu.
59. An Asian river between China and Russia.
60. Highly excited.
62. Showing your contempt by derision.
63. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
66. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
67. School of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith.
68. A port in southwestern Scotland.
71. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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