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1. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
4. Someone who asks a question.
9. God of love and erotic desire.
13. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
15. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
19. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
20. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
21. A port city in southwestern Iran.
23. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
26. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
37. An enclosed space.
38. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
39. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
42. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. A fraudulent business scheme.
45. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
52. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
56. Obvious and dull.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
61. Affect with wonder.
62. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
65. A small piece of cloth.
66. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
67. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
68. 10 grams.
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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
3. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
6. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
7. A doctor's degree in education.
8. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
12. A primeval personification of air and breath.
17. An oil port in southern Iraq.
22. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
24. Become imbued.
25. A Russian river.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
30. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
31. A pass between mountain peaks.
32. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. Serving as or forming a base.
36. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
41. Fallow deer.
44. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
46. Tall hat.
48. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
50. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
51. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
53. (Sumerian) Sun god.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
57. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
60. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
64. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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