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1. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
10. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
13. A column of light (as from a beacon).
14. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
15. A boy or man.
16. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
17. Engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring).
19. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
21. Any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudo-bulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers.
23. Not widely known.
25. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
31. A branch of the Tai languages.
33. A native-born Israeli.
35. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
36. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
39. A state in New England.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
47. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
49. Kindly endorsement and guidance.
53. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
56. Flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water.
59. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
60. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
61. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
62. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
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1. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
2. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
3. The working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects.
4. Chick-pea plant.
5. With rapid movements.
6. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
7. (informal) Of the highest quality.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
10. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
11. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
12. The content of cognition.
18. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
20. An oil port in southern Iraq.
22. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
24. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
26. A sudden rapid flow (as of water).
27. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
28. In bed.
29. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
30. A female domestic.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
37. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
38. An affirmative.
40. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
42. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
43. Cause to ripen.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
48. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
50. An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.
51. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
52. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
54. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
55. Fiddler crabs.
57. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. An expression of greeting.
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