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1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. Attach a yoke or harness to, as of a draft animal.
10. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. Small genus of Eurasian herbs.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
18. An informal term for a father.
20. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
21. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
22. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. Type genus of the Caviidae.
29. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
32. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. Widely known and esteemed.
41. A conversation between two persons.
43. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
44. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. A town in north central Oklahoma.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
51. The act of scanning.
54. Not divisible by two.
56. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
59. An accidental happening.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
65. Small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa.
66. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
67. How long something has existed.
68. Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall.
69. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
3. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
4. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
5. A beta-adrenergic blocking agent (trade name Corgard) that is used to treat hypertension and angina.
6. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
10. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
11. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
17. A quantity of no importance.
19. A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile).
23. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
24. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
26. A port city in southwestern Iran.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
31. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
33. A slender double-reed instrument.
34. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
39. Divisible by two.
40. Offensively discourteous.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. Containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
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.
53. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
55. The specified day of the month.
57. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
58. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
60. Fiddler crabs.
61. A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
62. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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