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1. Not reflecting light.
4. Take or catch as if in a snare or trap.
10. (folklore) Fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
13. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
14. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
15. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
16. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. Lower in esteem.
21. Rounded like an egg.
23. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
24. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
28. A castrated tomcat.
30. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
34. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
41. Not fake or counterfeit.
42. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. Serving as or forming a base.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
59. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
62. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
66. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
67. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
69. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
70. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
71. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
72. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
73. A New England state.
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1. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
2. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
3. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
4. A doctor's degree in education.
5. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
6. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
7. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
8. A public promotion of some product or service.
9. A cloth having a crisscross design.
10. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
11. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
12. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
17. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. 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.
26. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
29. A state in midwestern United States.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
33. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
35. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
36. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Before noon.
43. An associate degree in applied science.
45. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
47. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
50. Make less active or intense.
52. Any plant of the genus Erica.
53. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
54. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
56. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
58. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
60. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
61. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
63. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
64. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
65. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
68. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
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