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1. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
4. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
10. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
13. The month following February and preceding April.
14. A member of the Dravidian people living in southern India.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
20. A quantity of no importance.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
25. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
29. One of a family of granular intrusive rocks.
33. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
35. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
40. Jordan's port.
44. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
45. The basic unit of money in Iran.
46. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
53. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
56. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
57. Used of a single unit or thing.
58. Without qualification.
60. Make amends for.
61. A doctor's degree in education.
62. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
63. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
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1. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. A small nail.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
6. Rounded like an egg.
7. Avatar of Vishnu.
8. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
9. Unknown god.
10. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
11. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
27. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
32. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
34. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
38. Be obedient to.
39. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
41. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
42. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
43. A branch of the Tai languages.
47. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
48. Advanced in years.
49. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
50. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
51. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
52. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954).
54. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
55. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
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