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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
10. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
15. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
16. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
17. A kiln for drying hops.
18. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
19. How long something has existed.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Something that is regarded as a chance event.
26. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
27. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
30. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
34. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
36. Of or belonging to an aecium.
38. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
41. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
44. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
47. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
48. Before noon.
50. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
53. Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.
58. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
59. Of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people.
62. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
63. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
64. To come or go into.
65. Bound or secured closely.
66. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
67. Any taillike structure.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Highly excited.
3. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
4. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
7. A bluish shade of green.
8. Genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers.
9. A member of the Athapaskan people living in northwestern California.
10. An instinctive motive.
11. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
12. Turned or twisted toward one side.
21. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
23. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
24. An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and flavored with licorice.
25. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
28. Not in good physical or mental health.
29. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
31. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
32. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
33. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. Having or covered with a lid or lids.
43. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
47. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
49. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
50. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
51. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
52. One thousandth of a second.
54. A genus of Mustelidae.
55. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. An informal term for a father.
60. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
61. (Sumerian) Sun god.
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