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1. The unit of frequency.
4. Rapid and indistinct speech.
10. Tag the base runner to get him out.
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. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
15. Used of a single unit or thing.
16. A master's degree in business.
17. Very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches.
18. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
19. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Avatar of Vishnu.
27. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. An ancient city in northwestern Iran.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Call forth.
36. Fiddler crabs.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
45. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
48. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
53. Undo the braids of.
58. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
59. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
62. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
63. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
64. A lizard of the family Agamidae.
65. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
66. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
67. A state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose.
68. An associate degree in applied science.
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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A city in northwestern Turkey.
7. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors.
8. Type genus of the Lacertidae.
9. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
10. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
11. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
12. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
20. An informal term for a father.
22. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
24. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
26. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
28. The last (12th) month of the year.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. A small island.
32. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
34. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. A light touch or stroke.
38. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
39. A workman who laces shoes or footballs or books (during binding).
40. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
47. Make uniform.
50. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
52. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
54. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
55. English monk and scholar (672-735).
56. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
57. 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).
60. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
61. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
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