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1. The unit of frequency.
4. Reading superficially or at random.
10. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A vaguely specified concern.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
18. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
19. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
20. An area of low mountains in northwestern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
26. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
27. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
36. An Eskimo hut.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
40. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
44. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
46. A Loloish language.
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. Rich in significance or implication.
55. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
58. The cry made by sheep.
59. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
60. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
62. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
63. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
64. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
65. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
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1. Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ.
2. A public square with room for pedestrians.
3. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
4. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
5. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
6. Many times at short intervals.
7. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
8. The Indic language of the Sindhi people.
9. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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. Type genus of the Ariidae.
22. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
28. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
29. The dialect of Albanian spoken in southern Albania and in areas of Greece and Italy.
30. Carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
34. The sixth month of the civil year.
35. With no effort to conceal.
37. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
45. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
50. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
52. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
53. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
54. A quantity that is added.
56. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
57. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
61. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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