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1. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
4. A bottle with a stopper.
10. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
13. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
14. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
15. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. A pale green variety of chrysolite.
22. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
23. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
25. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
28. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
31. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
32. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. How long something has existed.
39. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
42. 36th President of the United States.
44. Steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs.
45. Unknown god.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
49. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
52. Lie adjacent to another.
54. A bachelor's degree in science.
57. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
62. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
65. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
66. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. A small island.
3. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
4. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
5. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
6. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
7. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
9. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
10. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
11. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
12. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
20. An Eskimo hut.
21. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
24. Having help.
26. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
27. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A light touch or stroke.
33. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
34. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
38. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
41. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
42. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
53. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
55. Loose or flaccid body fat.
56. Being nine more than forty.
58. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
60. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
63. Informal terms for a mother.
64. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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