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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 congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip.
11. A Hindu or Sikh religious leader and personal teacher.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. A city in central Texas.
17. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. (India) Usually in combination.
21. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
23. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
25. A resource.
27. A Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket.
29. Type genus of the Otariidae.
32. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
33. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
37. The quality of a person's voice.
38. The cry made by sheep.
40. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
41. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
45. (anatomy) A depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ.
47. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
49. A spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil.
51. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
53. The condition of having no arms.
54. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
56. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
57. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
58. Make synchronous and adjust in time or manner.
63. The sixth month of the civil year.
66. The residue that remains when something is burned.
68. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
70. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
71. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
73. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
74. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
76. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
77. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
78. That is on a string.
79. Chief port of Yemen.
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1. By bad luck.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. The act of scanning.
4. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A small stream.
7. Containing or characterized by ellipsis.
8. A person who rules or guides or inspires others.
9. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
10. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
11. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
12. (Sumerian) Sun god.
13. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
14. A person who makes use of a thing.
20. Take in solid food.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. The closing section of a musical composition.
26. Slightly wet.
28. 1 species.
30. United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967).
31. Administer an oil or ointment to.
34. Muslim name for God.
35. Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926).
36. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
39. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
42. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
43. Water frozen in the solid state.
44. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
46. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
48. A game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters.
50. The act of puncturing with a small point.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
59. A spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion).
60. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
61. Having the same or similar characteristics.
62. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh.
64. Dearly loved.
65. In bed.
67. The fourth of the seven canonical hours.
69. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
72. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
75. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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