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1. 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.
5. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
9. A state in the western United States.
13. Using speech rather than writing.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
16. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
17. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
18. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. The largest island of Denmark and the site of Copenhagen.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
26. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
28. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
30. An informal term for a father.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
36. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
38. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
39. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
42. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
47. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
51. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
57. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
59. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
65. The cry made by sheep.
66. An enclosed space.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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1. The closing section of a musical composition.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
4. Aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces.
5. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
8. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
9. Having removed clothing.
10. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
11. A primeval personification of air and breath.
12. Paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people).
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. An associate degree in nursing.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
29. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
35. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
37. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
40. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
41. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
43. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
49. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
50. Jordan's port.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
54. A desert in central Asia.
55. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
56. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
58. A light touch or stroke.
60. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
61. A public promotion of some product or service.
63. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
64. A Russian river.
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