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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
10. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
13. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
14. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
17. The capital and largest city of Japan.
19. Persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant.
21. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
29. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
30. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
33. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
37. Any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds.
40. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. Large brightly crested bird of Africa.
56. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
60. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
61. An advanced law degree.
62. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
65. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
66. Occurring or payable every year.
67. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
3. Cheese containing a blue mold.
4. The British system of withholding tax.
5. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
6. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
7. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
8. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..
9. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
10. A large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression.
11. The content of cognition.
12. A small hard fruit.
18. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
20. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. The event of dying or departure from life.
26. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
27. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
28. An operating system that is on a disk.
31. A Spanish river.
32. The act of scanning.
35. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
38. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
39. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
41. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
48. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
49. Avatar of Vishnu.
50. God of love and erotic desire.
51. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
55. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
58. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
59. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
63. An associate degree in nursing.
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