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1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
9. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
13. (informal) Of the highest quality.
14. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
15. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
16. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. A church associated with a monastery or convent.
18. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
19. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
21. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
22. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
26. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
29. Of or relating to or containing barium.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
35. Fiddler crabs.
41. The capital of Morocco.
42. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
45. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
46. A master's degree in fine arts.
47. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
48. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers.
51. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
55. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
56. Spider monkeys.
59. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
60. The fatty flesh of eel.
61. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
62. A light touch or stroke.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. A fraudulent business scheme.
3. Make anew.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
6. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
7. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
8. Childcare during the day while parents work.
9. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
10. Diving ducks of North America having a bluish-gray bill.
11. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
12. United States parapsychologist (1895-1980).
20. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
27. The last (12th) month of the year.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
33. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
34. An audiotape recording of sound.
36. A salt or ester of acetic acid.
37. (Bible) The archangel who was the messenger of God.
38. A human limb.
39. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
40. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
43. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
44. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
49. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
50. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
52. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
53. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
54. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
57. Being one more than fifty.
58. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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