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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. The wood of an African obeche tree.
10. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. Providing coolness.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
17. A public building for gambling and entertainment.
18. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
19. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
21. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
22. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
24. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
27. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
30. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
41. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
43. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
45. Found along western Atlantic coast.
47. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
50. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
51. A period of time spent sleeping.
54. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa).
60. On, to, or at the top.
62. An audiotape recording of sound.
65. The food served and eaten at one time.
66. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
67. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A Hindu prince or king in India.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
7. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
8. Adult female chicken.
9. A genus of Scolopacidae.
10. African mahogany trees.
11. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. Jordan's port.
25. A state in midwestern United States.
26. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. In bed.
32. An informal term for a father.
35. Short and fat.
38. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
40. Contribute to the progress or growth of.
42. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
44. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
46. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
52. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
53. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
55. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
56. The content of cognition.
57. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
58. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
59. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
61. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
63. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
64. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
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