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1. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
10. X-ray picture of the kidneys and ureters after injection of a radiopaque dye.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. A tapering point.
15. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
16. Having three dimensions.
18. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
20. Type genus of the Anatidae.
22. Type genus of the Amiidae.
23. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
26. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
34. Situated at an apex.
35. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
37. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
39. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
51. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
55. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
57. Regret strongly.
58. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
59. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
62. Being one more than two.
63. The fatty flesh of eel.
64. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
65. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
3. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
4. An enclosed space.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
7. Before noon.
8. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
9. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
10. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
11. Being one more than seven.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
17. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
19. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
21. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
28. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
29. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
30. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
31. The capital of Western Samoa.
32. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
33. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
38. (informal) Roused to anger.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. The cry made by sheep.
43. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
45. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
49. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
50. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
52. Be agitated.
53. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
54. A town in north central Oklahoma.
56. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
60. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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