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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. A Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
12. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
16. 1 species.
17. Black tropical American cuckoo.
18. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
20. The month following February and preceding April.
21. Of or relating the the Vedas or to the ancient Sanskrit in which they were written.
22. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
23. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. A sultanate in northwestern Borneo.
32. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
33. God of the Underworld.
37. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. Chinese tea leaves that have been semi-fermented before being dried.
46. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
47. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
49. Leopard lizards.
51. Genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico.
53. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
54. An advantageous purchase.
55. A trivalent metalloid element.
57. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
59. Being one more than fifty.
60. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
62. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and Aflaxen).
65. A state in midwestern United States.
66. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
70. Similar to the color of a ripe orange.
73. Squash bugs.
75. (archaic) Of persons.
77. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
78. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
79. Water scorpions.
81. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
82. An audiotape recording of sound.
83. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
84. A Russian river.
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1. Gather, as of as crops.
2. The highest level or degree attainable.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. Coins collectively.
5. Native to Australia.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. Your general store of remembered information.
8. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
9. Put into a proper or systematic order.
10. A state in New England.
11. A crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat).
12. An informal term for a father.
13. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
14. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
19. Any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads.
24. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
27. A state in northwestern North America.
28. A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord.
30. Large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail.
31. One of the two branches of the Finno-Ugric family of languages.
34. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
35. Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work).
36. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
39. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
40. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
41. A criminal who is a member of gang.
43. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
48. (Greek mythology) A sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine.
50. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
52. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
56. A B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract.
58. Submerged freshwater perennials.
61. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
63. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
64. Related on the mother's side.
67. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
68. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
69. The closing section of a musical composition.
71. The mother of your father or mother.
72. A genus of Mustelidae.
74. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
76. A boy or man.
80. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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