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1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. United States painter born in Germany.
10. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
13. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
14. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
18. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
19. State in northeastern India.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
24. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
27. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
28. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
33. Chief port of Yemen.
35. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
37. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
39. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
43. How long something has existed.
44. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
50. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
58. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
60. The cry made by sheep.
61. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
64. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
65. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
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1. A genus of Ploceidae.
2. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
3. Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids.
4. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. An indistinct shapeless form.
7. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
8. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
11. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
12. Fallow deer.
17. 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.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
25. Late time of life.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
30. Divulge information or secrets.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
34. A light touch or stroke.
36. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
38. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
42. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
43. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
45. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
48. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
49. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
51. Make a plat of.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. Very dark black.
55. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
56. A university in Connecticut.
59. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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