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1. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
4. Small genus of succulent annual herbs found on sandy shores of North America and Europe.
10. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
14. Of or containing iridium.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
17. United States tennis player (born in Yugoslavia in 1973).
19. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
21. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
26. Armor plate that protects the chest.
28. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
30. Jordan's port.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
37. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
38. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
42. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
43. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. An informal term for a father.
49. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
52. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
54. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
58. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
61. Ludicrously odd.
62. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
63. A port city in southwestern Iran.
66. (British) Your grandmother.
67. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
69. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
2. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
3. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
4. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
5. Of or relating to or involving an area.
6. American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry.
7. The content of cognition.
8. A fabric woven with lisle thread.
9. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
10. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
11. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
12. A quantity of no importance.
18. An epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines.
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
22. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
25. A Loloish language.
27. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
29. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
31. Divulge information or secrets.
32. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
35. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. (Greek) A benevolent spirit.
44. Fallow deer.
46. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
50. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
51. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
53. A narrow way or road.
55. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
56. A city of central China.
57. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
64. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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