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1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
10. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
13. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
14. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. An Asian river between China and Russia.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
22. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
24. Marked by the reception of pay.
26. To run away.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
33. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
36. Pertaining to or near the sun.
38. (Babylonian) The sky god.
39. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
41. God of fire.
44. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
47. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
50. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
51. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
55. Framework for holding objects.
57. A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
59. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
62. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
63. A yearning for something or to do something.
64. A genus of Lamnidae.
65. A youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s.
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1. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
2. English monk and scholar (672-735).
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Jordan's port.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A landlocked republic in central Africa.
7. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
9. Gull family.
10. By bad luck.
11. A narrow way or road.
12. The act of scanning.
17. Greek mythology.
23. A bachelor's degree in religion.
25. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
27. A local computer network for communication between computers.
28. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
30. Used of the language of the deaf.
31. Sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors.
32. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
34. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
35. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
37. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. Noisy talk.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. With rapid movements.
46. Wood of a pecan tree.
48. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
49. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
52. Of or being the lowest female voice.
53. A circular segment of a curve.
54. Type genus of the Anatidae.
56. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
58. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
60. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
61. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
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