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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
10. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
13. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
14. A flourish added after or under your signature (originally to protect against forgery).
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
18. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
19. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
20. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
22. A sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together.
24. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Towards the side away from the wind.
28. A town in northern Egypt.
32. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
36. Austrian composer (1860-1911).
37. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
39. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
40. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. Having more than one spouse at a time.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Chief deity of Zoroastrianism.
51. Rapid and indistinct speech.
55. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
59. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
60. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
61. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
64. Black tropical American cuckoo.
65. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
66. Greek mythology.
67. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
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1. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
2. Someone whose business is advertising.
3. Largest crested screamer.
4. Morning glory.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
8. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
9. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
10. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
11. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
12. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
17. Painful from having the skin abraded.
21. How long something has existed.
23. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
26. A canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter.
29. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
30. A large quantity of written matter.
31. Showily imitative of art or artists.
33. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
34. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
39. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
43. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
44. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
45. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
46. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
49. Deeply moved.
50. Dignified manner or conduct.
52. Divulge information or secrets.
53. A narrow way or road.
54. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
57. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
58. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
62. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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