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1. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
4. A postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory.
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
14. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried.
15. Bright and pleasant.
16. A human limb.
17. A permanent council of the United Nations.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
22. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
24. American novelist (1909-1955).
26. The cry made by sheep.
27. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
30. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
34. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. The capital of Western Samoa.
39. A light touch or stroke.
40. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
42. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
43. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. A Loloish language.
53. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
54. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
60. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
64. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university).
66. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
67. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. Singing jazz.
2. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
5. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
6. The 3rd planet from the sun.
7. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
8. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
9. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. More or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first.
20. Set down according to a plan.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
32. Possessing material wealth.
33. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
35. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
36. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
37. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
41. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
44. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
47. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. Informal terms for a mother.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Slightly open.
56. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
57. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
58. Very dark black.
59. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
61. A Nilotic language.
65. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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