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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
5. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
10. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
14. By chance.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
21. A state in northwestern North America.
22. Having help.
26. An informal term for a father.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
38. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
40. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
42. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
43. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. 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.
50. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
51. Fallow deer.
54. A vigorous blow.
58. 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. Seed of a pea plant.
63. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
66. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
68. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
69. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
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1. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
2. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
3. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
4. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
5. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
7. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. Wearing or provided with clothing.
11. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
17. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
23. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
24. 1/10 gram.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. An associate degree in applied science.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. Young sheep.
35. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
36. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
37. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
39. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
41. A very light brown.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
48. Indigo bush.
49. In operation or operational.
52. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
53. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
55. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
56. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
57. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
59. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
60. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
61. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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