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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Informal terms for money.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
15. (Greek mythology) God of love.
16. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
17. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Time during which some action is awaited.
21. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
23. That is to say.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A light touch or stroke.
28. In bed.
33. A master's degree in business.
35. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
38. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
39. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
42. 10 grams.
44. Sacred text of Zoroastrianism.
47. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
48. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
51. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
56. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
57. A genus of Anatidae.
59. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
62. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
63. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
64. A small cake leavened with yeast.
65. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
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1. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
2. Be in accord.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. A large fleet.
5. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
6. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
7. Divulge information or secrets.
8. Wear away.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
11. A large number or amount.
12. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
20. God of the Underworld.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
27. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
29. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
30. A large number or amount.
31. Cry plaintively.
32. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
34. The cry made by sheep.
36. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
37. Used in combination.
40. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
41. A genus of Indriidae.
43. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
45. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
50. A genus of Mustelidae.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. Tropical Asian starlings.
54. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
55. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
58. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
60. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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