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1. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
4. One of the three Furies.
10. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. Commercially important fish of the North American Pacific coast.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes.
18. The money risked on a gamble.
19. Sacred writings of Orthodox Judaism.
21. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
23. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
24. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
28. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
29. A small cut of meat including part of a rib.
32. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
34. A quantity of no importance.
37. An informal term for a father.
38. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
47. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
53. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
57. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
59. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
61. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
62. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
63. A thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery).
66. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
67. (British) Informal term for information.
68. Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold.
69. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
70. A doctor's degree in religion.
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1. Make a plat of.
2. Type genus of the Ranidae.
3. A soft whitish calcite.
4. (Hindu mythology) The most important of the princes in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God.
5. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
6. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
7. American pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845).
8. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
9. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
10. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
12. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
20. (archaic) A fitting reward.
22. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
26. Something that hinders as if with bonds v 1.
30. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
33. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. A port city in southwestern Iran.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
46. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
50. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
52. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. The food served and eaten at one time.
56. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
58. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
60. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
64. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
65. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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