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1. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
4. An ancient city in southeastern Greece.
9. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
13. (informal) Of the highest quality.
14. A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.
15. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
16. The act of scanning.
18. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
19. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
20. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
21. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
23. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
24. 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.
32. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
34. Earlier a god.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
38. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
47. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
49. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
53. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
57. The products of human creativity.
58. A large fleet.
61. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
62. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
63. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
64. The capital and largest city of Japan.
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1. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
2. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
3. Made of fir or pine.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
6. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
7. A sign of something about to happen.
8. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
9. Genus of North American and east Asian perennial herbs.
10. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
17. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
22. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
29. Lacking sensation.
30. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
31. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
40. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. A job in an organization.
46. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
48. A visual presentation showing how something works.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
52. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
54. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
56. The bill in a restaurant.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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