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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
10. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
13. Used of a single unit or thing.
14. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
15. The products of human creativity.
16. Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree.
18. Be a mystery or bewildering to.
20. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
23. (Greek mythology) Any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus.
24. Surround so as to force to give up.
26. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
27. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
28. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
31. A state in the western United States.
34. (informal) Roused to anger.
35. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
37. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
41. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
42. Black tropical American cuckoo.
43. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
45. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
51. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
54. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
56. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. By bad luck.
63. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
64. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
65. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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1. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
2. Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family.
3. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
4. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. A local computer network for communication between computers.
8. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
9. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
10. Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River.
11. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
12. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
17. Affectedly trendy.
19. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
21. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
32. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
33. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
36. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
38. Of or like a cecum.
39. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
40. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
44. Fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric.
46. Lower in esteem.
47. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
49. Offering fun and gaiety.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
52. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. An informal term for a father.
57. A light touch or stroke.
58. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
61. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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