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1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. A Shinto god of war.
12. Tag the base runner to get him out.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Capable of being raised to an upright position.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. Needlepoint stitch that produces zigzag lines.
20. An electrically charged particle.
21. A genus of Vespertilionidae.
23. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A white trivalent metallic element.
28. A crime syndicate in the United States.
34. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
35. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
37. 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.
41. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
43. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
44. A European river.
45. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. French royal architect who built the Tuileries Palace and Gardens in Paris for Catherine de Medicis (1515-1570).
53. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
54. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
55. A bottle with a stopper.
58. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
60. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
63. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
64. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
65. A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop.
68. Of or belonging to an aecium.
72. Any plant of the genus Inula.
73. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
76. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
77. Type genus of the Ranidae.
79. Not reflecting light.
80. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
81. A large fleet.
82. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
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1. On or toward the lee.
2. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
5. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
6. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
7. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
8. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
9. Of or relating to or characteristic of Milan or its people.
10. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
11. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
12. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
13. Gone by.
14. English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820).
22. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
24. A fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance.
27. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
30. Wild and menacing.
31. (informal) Of the highest quality.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
36. (informal) Roused to anger.
38. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
39. Of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people.
40. Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907).
42. Colloquial British abbreviation.
46. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
48. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
49. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
51. The template for protein synthesis.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
56. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
57. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
59. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
61. An atom having a valence of one.
62. Dried plum v 1.
66. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
67. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
69. The eighth month of the civil year.
70. Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills).
71. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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