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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
5. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
10. A person regarded as greedy and pig-like.
13. The back side of the neck.
14. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
16. Not fake or counterfeit.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
21. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
22. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
23. The third month of the civil year.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
28. An acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety.
32. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
37. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
38. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. A flexible container with a single opening.
41. An island in the Persian Gulf.
43. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
44. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
46. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
48. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
50. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
53. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
57. Brightest star in Centaurus.
58. The act of scanning.
61. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
62. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
64. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
65. In ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
66. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
67. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
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1. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
2. A mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high).
3. The gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'.
4. Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.
5. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
6. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
9. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
10. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
11. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
18. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
20. A young woman making her debut into society.
24. A group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river.
26. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
29. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
30. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
31. 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).
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
42. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
45. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
47. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
49. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
51. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
52. Armor plate that protects the chest.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
54. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
55. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
56. The highest level or degree attainable.
59. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
60. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
63. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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