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1. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
4. The superior of a group of nuns.
10. Top part of an apron.
13. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
14. United States showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891).
15. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
16. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
17. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
19. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
21. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
22. A motley assortment of things.
24. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
26. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
27. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
29. Personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians.
31. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
37. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
42. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
45. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
47. Framework for holding objects.
48. Speaking a Slavic language.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
52. German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716).
59. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
60. Of or at or relating to an anode.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
65. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
66. Being two more than fifty.
67. An associate degree in applied science.
68. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
69. Water frozen in the solid state.
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1. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
2. A message received and understood that reduces the recipient's uncertainty.
3. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
6. A city in southwestern Poland on the Oder.
7. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
8. A man who courts a woman.
9. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. Involving the medulla oblongata.
11. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
12. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
18. American novelist (1909-1955).
20. A Loloish language.
23. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
25. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
28. The act of scanning.
30. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
36. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
40. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. God of the underworld and judge of the dead.
44. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
46. A state in north central United States.
49. Squash bugs.
53. A genus of Mustelidae.
54. Pertaining to animals or animal life or action.
55. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
56. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
57. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
58. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
61. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
62. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
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