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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. A former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere).
10. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
13. An accountant certified by the state.
14. Darkened with overcast.
15. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. Short and fat.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. Smallest merganser and most expert diver.
23. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
24. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person.
32. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
36. In a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug.
38. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
39. Step on it.
40. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
43. Of or relating to mucous membranes.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
50. An informal conversation.
54. Of or belonging to an aecium.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. The occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
64. A deficiency of red blood cells.
65. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
66. The basic unit of money in Romania.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
5. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
6. A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.
7. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
8. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
9. Half the width of an em.
10. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
11. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
12. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
20. Look with amazement.
22. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
25. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
26. An ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor.
28. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
30. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
31. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
33. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
44. An awkward stupid person.
45. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
46. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
49. A crime syndicate in the United States.
51. A slender double-reed instrument.
52. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
53. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
54. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
55. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
56. Advanced in years.
57. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
60. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
61. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
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