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1. Free from risk or danger.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
13. A notice of someone's death.
14. Covered with water.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Not only so, but.
17. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
18. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
20. King of the Huns.
22. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Improperly forward or bold.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. A quantity of no importance.
33. Considerate and solicitous care.
34. Enlarged prostate.
36. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
37. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
39. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
45. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
47. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
50. Equipment designed to serve a specific function.
51. Feeling mild pleasurable excitement.
54. A bachelor's degree in music.
57. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
61. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
62. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
63. Away from the mouth or oral region.
66. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
67. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
68. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
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1. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
2. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
3. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
4. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
7. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
8. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
9. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
11. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
12. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
19. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
21. Designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily.
24. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
25. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
27. Of or being the lowest female voice.
28. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. An informal term for a father.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
35. Quick and skillful in movement.
38. A Bantu language closely related to Zulu.
40. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
41. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
42. Material used to daub walls.
46. Rate of revolution of a motor.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
52. Informal terms for a meal.
53. Slightly open.
55. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
56. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
58. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
59. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
60. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
65. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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