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1. Obscene terms for feces.
5. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
9. Slightly wet.
13. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
14. The content of cognition.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
16. English monk and scholar (672-735).
18. Ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side.
19. A gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier.
20. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
21. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
22. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
23. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
34. A genus of Platalea.
36. An associate degree in applied science.
40. A person of Iranian descent.
41. Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage).
44. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
46. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
47. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
49. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
55. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. (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.
61. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers.
62. Characteristic of a mob.
63. Any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel.
64. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
65. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
66. A state in northwestern North America.
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1. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
8. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
11. Informal terms for a mother.
12. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
17. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
24. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. 10 grams.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
31. Anything that serves as an enticement.
35. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
37. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. A radioactive transuranic element.
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
45. The amount a salary is increased.
48. A French abbot.
50. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
51. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
52. Very dark black.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
57. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
60. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
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