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1. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
4. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
10. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
15. (Irish) The sea personified.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
19. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
21. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
24. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
26. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
29. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
30. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
32. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
36. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
37. Fiddler crabs.
40. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about.
49. (British) A lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
53. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
54. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
55. A local computer network for communication between computers.
58. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
59. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
60. French tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
63. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
64. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
65. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
66. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A genus of Ploceidae.
2. Of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people.
3. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
4. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
5. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
6. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
7. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
8. French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893).
9. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
10. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
11. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
12. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
27. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. Black tropical American cuckoo.
33. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
39. Epithet of Siva.
40. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
41. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
42. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. Relating to or accompanying birth.
48. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
50. Toward the mouth or oral region.
51. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
52. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
56. A resource.
57. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
61. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
62. The square of a body of any size of type.
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