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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
10. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
13. The habitation of wild animals.
14. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. The capital of Bahrain.
18. The act of escaping physically.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. Broken into sharp pieces.
32. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
35. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
36. The time during which someone's life continues.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
43. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
44. (informal) Exceptionally good.
46. New Zealand conifer.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. United States theologian (born in Germany) (1886-1965).
54. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
57. The eighth month of the civil year.
58. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
61. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
63. A port city in southwestern Iran.
65. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
66. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
67. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
68. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
4. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
6. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
9. An associate degree in applied science.
10. Bearing or characterized by a blade or sword.
11. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
12. (biology) Shed at an early stage of development.
17. Lower in esteem.
19. 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.
22. A city in Indonesia.
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
26. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
30. A city in northern India.
31. The capital and largest city of Japan.
33. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
34. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
37. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
41. Mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus.
42. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
45. Offering fun and gaiety.
47. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
49. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
50. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
52. The eighth month of the civil year.
53. A city in east-central France on the Rhone River.
55. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
56. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
59. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
60. Extremely pleasing.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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