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1. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
4. A period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field.
10. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. Protective covering made of metal and used in combat.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. Of or relating to bionics.
18. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
19. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A state in the western United States.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. The capital of Croatia.
34. Letters and packages that are transported by aircraft.
36. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. Remove completely from recognition or memory.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. An associate degree in nursing.
48. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
51. Having help.
55. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
56. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
59. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
60. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
61. European shad.
62. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
63. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
64. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
65. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. Female equine animal.
4. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
5. Any plant of the genus Erica.
6. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
7. A male human offspring.
8. A board with the alphabet on it.
9. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
10. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
11. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
20. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
26. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. The cry made by sheep.
30. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
31. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
32. On or toward the lee.
35. The content of cognition.
40. A light touch or stroke.
41. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
43. South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit.
45. A wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish.
46. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
47. An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.
49. Noisy talk.
50. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
52. The first light of day.
53. Divisible by two.
54. An informal term for a father.
57. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
58. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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