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1. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
4. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
10. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
13. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
14. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. The striking of one body against another.
18. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
20. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
21. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
22. (KNO3) Used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
23. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
30. Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing.
34. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
36. The month following March and preceding May.
37. (psychophysics) The difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected.
42. Affected by ague.
45. Make less active or intense.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Elegant and stylish.
49. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
52. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
56. Jordan's port.
58. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
60. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
61. Lower in esteem.
64. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
65. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
66. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
67. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
68. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
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1. Expel, as of gases and odors.
2. Capital and largest city of Italy.
3. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
4. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
5. The basic unit of money in Macao.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
9. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
10. A thin strip (wood or metal).
11. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
12. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
17. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
19. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
24. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
26. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
28. A special way of doing something.
29. Relating to the Urdu language.
31. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
32. Petty quarrel.
33. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
35. A bachelor's degree in religion.
38. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
39. Any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
40. A member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California.
41. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
44. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
48. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
50. A Loloish language.
51. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
53. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
54. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
55. British politician (1788-1850).
57. An associate degree in applied science.
58. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
63. An associate degree in nursing.
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