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1. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
4. Of or relating to apnea.
10. The seventh and last day of the week.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. Press or grind with a crunching noise.
15. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
18. The month following July and preceding September.
19. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
21. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
27. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
29. A human female who does housework.
30. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.
34. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
36. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
42. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
45. Lower in esteem.
47. The mother of Jesus.
51. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
59. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
60. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
62. Type genus of the Majidae.
63. The products of human creativity.
65. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
66. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
67. Jordan's port.
68. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
69. Half the width of an em.
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1. An Eskimo hut.
2. The act of scanning.
3. A member of the Algonquian people formerly living the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic.
4. The highest level or degree attainable.
5. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
6. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
7. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
8. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
9. Uncomfortably cool.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
11. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
12. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
20. A city is southern Alberta.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. African mahogany trees.
26. Toward the mouth or oral region.
28. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
31. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
33. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. God of wealth and love.
41. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
46. A member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s.
47. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
48. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
49. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
50. 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A small cake leavened with yeast.
56. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
57. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
58. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
61. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
64. Unknown god.
65. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
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