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1. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
4. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
10. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
13. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
14. A covered passageway.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
18. Roman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva.
20. The principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull.
21. (of tempo) Very fast and lively adv.
22. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
24. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
25. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
26. An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. 35th President of the United States.
36. A resource.
39. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
42. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
43. German biologist and philosopher.
45. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. (informal) Exceptionally good.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
61. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
62. The face or front of a building.
64. 10 grams.
65. A light touch or stroke.
66. A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.
67. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
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1. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
2. Type genus of the Nepidae.
3. Not fake or counterfeit.
4. A genus of Ploceidae.
5. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
6. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
9. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
10. Type genus of the Majidae.
11. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
12. A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment.
17. Posing no difficulty.
19. Report or maintain.
23. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
27. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
28. An awkward stupid person.
31. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
33. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
35. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
37. Water frozen in the solid state.
38. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
41. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
44. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
46. Any plant of the genus Erica.
49. Avatar of Vishnu.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
53. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. A feeling of intense anger.
57. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
58. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
59. The capital and largest city of Japan.
63. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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