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1. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
4. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
9. Slow to learn or understand.
13. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
14. Obvious and dull.
15. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980).
18. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
19. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
20. A large fleet.
21. Currently happening.
23. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
26. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. (Judaism) Not conforming to dietary laws.
40. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
43. A Hindu prince or king in India.
45. Elevated open grassland in southern Africa.
47. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
48. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
51. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. Decrease in size, extent, or range.
56. The site of an archeological exploration.
58. Jordan's port.
61. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
62. Fiddler crabs.
63. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
64. Rounded like an egg.
65. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
66. Make uniform.
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
2. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
3. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
4. In bed.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
8. German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947).
9. (Phoenician and Philistine) God of agriculture and the earth.
10. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
11. Most important element.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
17. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
22. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
24. United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970).
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
27. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
28. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
30. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
31. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
34. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
37. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
38. Salt pork from the back of a hog carcass.
39. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
41. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
42. Most important element.
44. (informal) Of the highest quality.
46. Any plant of the genus Erica.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Any plant of the genus Inula.
53. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
55. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
57. A humorous anecdote or remark.
59. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
60. The cry made by sheep.
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