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1. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
4. The fine downy hair covering a human fetus.
10. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
13. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
14. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
15. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
16. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
18. United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914).
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. By bad luck.
22. United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937).
24. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
27. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. An associate degree in nursing.
29. Immediately past.
33. Prevent from being seen or discovered.
38. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
39. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
41. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
43. Before noon.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
47. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
52. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
53. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
57. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
63. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
65. On or toward the lee.
66. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
67. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans.
3. Designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent.
4. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
7. Fiddler crabs.
8. United States feminist (1860-1935).
9. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
11. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.
12. The complete duration of something.
17. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
21. Covered with paving material.
23. Of a pale purple color.
25. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
32. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
34. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
35. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
36. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
37. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A Loloish language.
48. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
49. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
52. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
54. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
58. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
59. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
60. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
61. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
64. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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