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1. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
4. A piece of land held under the feudal system.
9. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
13. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
14. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
15. Advanced in years.
16. Used of a single unit or thing.
17. Jordan's port.
18. Having been read.
19. Obvious and dull.
21. The ability to form mental images of things or events.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
27. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. 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.
33. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
40. A fraudulent business scheme.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
47. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
51. A drawing intended to explain how something works.
54. Having a smooth, gleaming surface.
55. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
56. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
60. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
61. A smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked.
63. The bill in a restaurant.
64. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
65. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
2. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
3. Chief port of Yemen.
4. A young horse.
5. (British) A title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight.
6. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
7. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
8. A structure supporting or containing something.
9. Brazilian statesman who ruled Brazil as a virtual dictator (1883-1954).
10. American novelist (1909-1955).
11. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
12. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).
20. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A flexible container with a single opening.
25. God of death.
26. A licensed medical practitioner.
28. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
29. How long something has existed.
30. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. A large number or amount.
38. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
39. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
41. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
42. Smother or suppress.
43. A state in midwestern United States.
45. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.
46. Greek mythology.
48. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Jordan's port.
52. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
53. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
57. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
58. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
62. Half the width of an em.
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