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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. An expression of greeting.
9. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
15. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
16. The sign language used in the United States.
17. An alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk.
18. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
19. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
22. The production of young from an egg.
23. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. That is to say.
25. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
30. Lean end of the neck.
34. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
37. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
38. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
42. Coffee trees.
45. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
47. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
48. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. An awkward stupid person.
52. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
56. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
58. Have confidence or faith in.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. Used of a single unit or thing.
63. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
64. Jordan's port.
65. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
3. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
4. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
5. A liquid solution that results from elution.
6. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
7. English film actress (1913-1967).
8. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
9. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
10. A city in northwestern Syria.
11. New Zealand conifer.
12. A member of the working class (not necessarily employed).
20. A neutral middle vowel.
21. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
26. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
27. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (1895-1982).
28. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
31. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
39. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. Declare invalid.
43. Antiprotozoal medication (trade name Flagyl) used to treat trichomoniasis and giardiasis.
44. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
46. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
49. On or toward the lee.
50. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
53. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
54. The goddess of the moon.
55. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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