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1. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
4. Of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch.
10. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
14. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
18. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
19. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
20. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
21. A member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama.
23. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
35. God of love and erotic desire.
36. A state in the western United States.
38. The cry made by sheep.
40. Before noon.
41. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
42. Russian country house.
46. (Greek mythology) Queen of Thebes who unknowingly married her own son Oedipus.
51. 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.
55. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
56. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
59. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
60. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
61. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
62. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
63. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
64. Having winglike extensions.
65. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
2. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
3. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
4. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
7. Any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
9. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
10. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
11. Make a plat of.
12. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
17. An informal term for a father.
22. A branch of the Tai languages.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. American novelist (1909-1955).
28. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
29. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
34. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
37. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
39. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
43. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
45. Moving quickly and lightly.
47. Toward the mouth or oral region.
48. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
49. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
50. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
52. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
53. Anything that serves as an enticement.
54. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
57. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
58. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
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