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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union.
9. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
13. (Babylonian) The sky god.
14. A grant made by a law court.
15. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
16. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
18. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
19. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
20. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
21. A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad.
23. A coarse obnoxious person.
26. The capital and largest city of Japan.
27. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. The capital of Croatia.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
41. Lower in esteem.
43. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
46. Steal goods.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
53. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
54. The father of your father or mother.
57. Make amendments to.
58. Type genus of the Ranidae.
59. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
62. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
63. In bed.
64. Jordan's port.
65. Marked by skill in deception.
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1. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
2. A vicious angry growl.
3. A town in the Andes in southern Peru.
4. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
5. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
6. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
7. A city in south central California in the San Joaquin Valley.
8. Someone whose business is advertising.
9. A large fleet.
10. A genus of Pyralidae.
11. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
17. (Sumerian) Evil storm god represented as a black bird.
22. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
32. An expression of open-mouthed astonishment.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Not easy.
38. State in northeastern India.
39. The body of people who lead a group.
40. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
42. The capital of Turkey.
44. An atom having a valence of one.
45. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
47. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
48. A young child.
50. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
51. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. Used of a single unit or thing.
56. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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