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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. A document ordering the payment of money.
9. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia.
15. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
16. Having leadership guidance.
17. Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson).
18. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
23. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
24. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
26. State in northeastern India.
28. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
31. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
33. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
34. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
36. Enact or perform again.
40. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
42. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
43. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
45. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
49. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
52. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
56. The capital of Eritrea.
58. Wool of the alpaca.
59. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field.
60. Lower in esteem.
63. A trivial lie.
64. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
65. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
66. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
5. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
6. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
7. A member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat.
8. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
9. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
10. Twining perennial North American plants.
11. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
12. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
20. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
25. The basic unit of money in Spain.
27. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
29. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
30. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
32. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
35. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
39. A slight amount or degree of difference.
41. An African river.
42. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
44. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
47. Squash bugs.
48. Indigo bush.
50. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
51. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
53. (British slang) Cafe.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
55. A small cake leavened with yeast.
57. An associate degree in applied science.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
62. An associate degree in nursing.
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