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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
9. (nontechnical usage) A tiny piece of anything.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
15. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
16. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
20. The act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection).
22. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
24. The sixth day of the week.
26. Without fat or fat solids.
29. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
36. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
42. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
43. A bachelor's degree in theology.
44. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. Any high mountain.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. Slightly open.
59. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
61. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
62. Half the width of an em.
63. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
64. On or toward the lee.
66. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
67. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
68. Produced by a manufacturing process.
69. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
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1. Look at with amorous intentions.
2. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
3. Divulge information or secrets.
4. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
5. Excessive desire to eat.
6. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value.
10. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
11. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.
12. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
17. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (1895-1982).
21. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A slender double-reed instrument.
28. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A state in New England.
37. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
39. Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious.
40. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
48. (British and Australian) A cheap wine of inferior quality.
50. A mythical Greek hero.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
56. A public promotion of some product or service.
58. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. 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.
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