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1. Colloquial British abbreviation.
5. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
10. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
13. Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776).
14. An iconic mental representation.
15. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
16. Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.
18. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Ansaid) that is administered only orally.
20. Youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali.
21. Any taillike structure.
22. An adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
25. A polite name for any woman.
28. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
37. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
38. Expected hopefully.
40. Seed of a pea plant.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
42. Tag the base runner to get him out.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
47. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
51. Highly excited.
55. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
57. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
58. Stalk of a moss capsule.
59. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
61. One of the common people.
62. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
63. Not only so, but.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A professional cook.
2. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
3. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
4. Lack of sight.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. An ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck.
7. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A barrier that serves to enclose an area.
10. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
11. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
12. A quantity of no importance.
17. Before noon.
19. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
23. An artificial language.
24. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. American novelist (1909-1955).
27. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
30. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
31. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
32. An informal term for a father.
34. Lean end of the neck.
35. 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.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
40. A barrier that serves to enclose an area.
44. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
46. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
47. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
48. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
49. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
50. Look at with amorous intentions.
52. A British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters.
53. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
56. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
60. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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