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1. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
4. Capable of existing or taking place or proving true.
10. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
15. How long something has existed.
16. By bad luck.
18. (Roman mythology) God of love.
20. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
21. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
22. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
23. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
24. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. The superior of an abbey of monks.
32. A deep bow.
35. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. Advanced in years.
38. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
41. Pan with a convex bottom.
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
44. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. A long-playing phonograph record.
51. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
54. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
58. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and love poetry.
60. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
61. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
64. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
65. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
66. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Fill with high spirits.
2. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
5. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
6. The capital of Eritrea.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. The basic unit of money on Malta.
9. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
10. 1 species.
11. American novelist (1909-1955).
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
17. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
19. Jordan's port.
25. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
26. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A slender double-reed instrument.
31. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
39. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
40. Leatherleaf ferns.
41. The basic unit of money on Malta.
45. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
47. Of or related to or derived from oats.
48. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
50. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
51. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
52. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
53. A quantity of no importance.
55. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. God of love and erotic desire.
59. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
63. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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