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1. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
9. A coarse obnoxious person.
13. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
14. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
15. God of love and erotic desire.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
18. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
19. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
23. Lower in esteem.
25. Or or relating to or caused by tides.
26. Someone who drives a bus.
29. The month following September and preceding November.
30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. A resource.
34. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
35. A bachelor's degree in science.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
46. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
50. A motley assortment of things.
53. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. Production of a certain amount.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
60. Archaic name for England or Great Britain.
62. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
63. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
64. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
7. Any organic compound containing the group -CONH2.
8. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
9. A member of the Salish people in northwestern Washington.
10. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
11. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
12. (botany) Especially of leaves.
20. Fallow deer.
22. Make an etching of.
24. Type genus of the Anatidae.
27. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. A person forced to flee from home or country.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. A master's degree in business.
44. Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur.
45. Moving quickly and lightly.
47. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
56. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
57. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
61. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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