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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. Causing alarm or fear.
12. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. (formal) Ordinary and not refined.
17. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
18. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles.
20. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
21. Lower in esteem.
23. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
24. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
26. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
27. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
30. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
32. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
34. A branch of the Tai languages.
35. The cry made by sheep.
38. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
42. Intense anger (usually on an epic scale).
44. The capital and largest city of Japan.
45. Asian rat snakes.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people.
52. A thick sweet sticky liquid.
53. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
54. Relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants).
55. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
57. Relating to or accompanying birth.
58. From fermented juice of black morello cherries.
60. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
61. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
63. A public promotion of some product or service.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. Having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides.
77. An unforeseen obstacle.
78. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. Long and light rowing boat.
82. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
83. A city in northwestern Somalia.
84. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
5. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes.
8. United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914).
9. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
10. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
14. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
19. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
22. Elder brother of Krishna.
25. A light touch or stroke.
28. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. Something of sentimental value.
31. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
33. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
36. An antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus.
37. Metal shackles.
39. French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875).
40. A port in southwestern Scotland.
41. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
46. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia.
47. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. Round gourd of the calabash tree.
56. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
59. Large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil.
62. The 10th letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
66. In bed.
67. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
68. Able to act at will.
69. Type genus of the Gliridae.
70. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
71. Characteristic of false pride.
72. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
75. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
76. A cgs unit of work or energy.
80. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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