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1. 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.
5. Leafless East Indian vine.
10. Any of various units of capacity.
13. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
14. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. Very light colored.
17. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
19. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
38. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
39. With no effort to conceal.
41. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
42. An accidental happening.
44. Imperial moths.
49. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
50. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
55. South African term for `boss'.
59. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
60. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
62. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
63. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. A small piece of cloth.
67. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
68. Jordan's port.
69. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. An Egyptian descended from the ancient Egyptians.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
4. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
5. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
6. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. (informal) Roused to anger.
9. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
10. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. Characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity.
18. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. The first month of the year.
23. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. A boy or man.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
30. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
31. Not in action or at work.
32. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
34. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
40. A light touch or stroke.
43. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
44. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
45. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
46. State in northeastern India.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
48. 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.
51. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
52. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
56. A city in northern India.
57. By bad luck.
58. An utterance made by exhaling audibly.
61. The basic unit of money in Albania.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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