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1. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
5. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
10. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
13. A person who makes use of a thing.
14. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
15. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
16. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
17. A Hindu religious teacher.
18. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
19. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
21. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
26. How long something has existed.
29. A light touch or stroke.
31. The act of scanning.
38. Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. (India) Usually in combination.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. A person forced to flee from home or country.
49. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
53. An informal term for a father.
55. A yellow quartz.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
60. Gone by.
61. Jordan's port.
62. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
63. A master's degree in education.
64. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
65. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
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1. A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass.
2. The capital and largest city of Norway.
3. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
4. 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.
5. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
6. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
7. The father of your father or mother.
8. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
9. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
10. An elongated leather strip (or or strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position.
11. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
12. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
20. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
23. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
30. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
32. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
33. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
34. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
35. A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
39. A festival featuring African-American culture.
40. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
43. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
44. The square of a body of any size of type.
47. A major god.
48. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
50. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
51. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
52. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
54. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
56. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
57. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
59. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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