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1. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
4. A cotton fabric with a satiny finish.
10. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. Seed of a pea plant.
14. Traveling on horseback.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. Not wide.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
30. Do wrongly or improperly.
34. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
35. A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance.
36. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
37. A Hindu prince or king in India.
39. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic.
45. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
47. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
48. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
51. Call upon in supplication.
54. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
58. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
60. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
64. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
66. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
67. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Perceive sound.
3. The mother of Jesus.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. An American who favored the British side during the American Revolution.
7. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
8. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
9. Not of long duration.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
11. Divulge information or secrets.
12. Fallow deer.
20. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
23. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
24. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
26. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
27. Located in or toward the back or rear.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
32. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
33. Using speech rather than writing.
38. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
41. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
43. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
44. An electrically charged particle.
46. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
49. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
50. A French abbot.
52. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
53. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. Very dark black.
57. An informal term for a father.
59. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
61. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
65. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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