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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter.
10. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. Of or like a cecum.
15. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. Photographic equipment consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other.
18. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
19. Squash bugs.
21. Adorned by inlays.
23. A town in southwestern Idaho.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. A radioactive transuranic element.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Not hard-surfaced.
37. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
42. Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado n 1.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
51. Make amends for.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
58. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
61. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
62. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
64. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
65. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
66. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
67. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. The act of scanning.
3. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
7. (informal) Of the highest quality.
8. A government tax on imports or exports.
9. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
10. Type genus of the Amiidae.
11. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
22. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
26. Type genus of the Anatidae.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
30. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
31. A genus of European owls.
33. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
34. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. An indistinct shapeless form.
39. Characteristic of a baby.
43. A state in the eastern United States.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
46. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
47. A state in midwestern United States.
50. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
51. An associate degree in nursing.
52. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
56. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
59. The habitation of wild animals.
60. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
63. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
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