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1. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
5. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
10. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
13. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
14. A drama set to music.
15. An accidental happening.
16. An edging of small loops, as on lace or ribbon.
17. In bed.
18. How long something has existed.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
23. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. An old Scottish coin of little value.
30. A Hindu prince or king in India.
34. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
35. A byproduct of inflammation.
36. The fifth month of the civil year.
38. Humorously vulgar.
40. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
41. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
42. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
45. Look forward to the probably occurrence of.
48. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
56. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
57. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
62. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women.
65. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
66. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
67. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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1. A genus of Accipitridae.
2. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
3. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
6. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
9. An extreme state of adversity.
10. An informal conversation.
11. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. Remove the claws from (a cat).
27. The capital of Western Samoa.
28. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
29. One thousandth of a second.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
33. A unit of pressure.
37. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
39. Jordan's port.
43. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
47. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
49. Very large red gum tree.
50. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
51. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
53. Located at or near the back of an animal.
54. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
58. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
59. A light touch or stroke.
60. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
63. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
64. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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