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1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. A portable computer small enough to use in your lap.
10. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
13. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
14. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
15. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
16. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
18. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
20. American novelist (1909-1955).
21. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
24. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
25. A member of the British order of honor.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
40. The products of human creativity.
41. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
43. An affirmative.
47. English monk and scholar (672-735).
49. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
52. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
56. Informal terms for money.
60. The cry made by sheep.
61. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
63. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
66. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
67. A state in midwestern United States.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
4. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
5. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
6. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
7. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
8. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
9. An informal term for a father.
10. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
11. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
12. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
17. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
19. 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.
26. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
27. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
32. A French abbot.
33. Common Indian weaverbird.
35. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
39. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
40. An informal term for a father.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
45. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
46. A state in midwestern United States.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. Willing to face danger.
57. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
58. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
63. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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