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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. An oblique or slanting asymmetry.
12. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
15. A male human offspring.
16. Capable of being tamed.
17. A boy or man.
18. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
20. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
22. After a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'.
23. Being one more than nine.
24. Type genus of the Gavidae.
26. In a racy manner.
27. In bed.
29. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
30. Common black European thrush.
32. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
36. After noon.
39. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
40. An informal term for a father.
41. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
42. A plant lacking a permanent woody stem.
45. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
47. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
48. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.
50. (informal) Of the highest quality.
52. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
54. The basic unit of money in Brazil.
56. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
57. Used of physical heat.
58. The act of grasping.
60. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
61. Type genus of the Amiidae.
63. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
66. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
68. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
69. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
73. Gone by.
74. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high).
78. A city in the European part of Russia.
79. The protruding part of the lower jaw.
81. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
82. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
83. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
84. A turner with a narrow flexible blade.
85. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. Someone who asks a question.
2. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
3. A small fragment.
4. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
5. Tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood.
6. The square of a body of any size of type.
7. Towards the side exposed to wind.
8. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
9. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
10. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
11. A twilled woolen fabric.
12. Speaking a Slavic language.
13. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
14. The content of cognition.
19. A member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. Spread or daub over.
31. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
33. An outstanding Spanish cellist noted for his interpretation of Bach's cello suites (1876-1973).
34. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
35. The food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel).
37. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
38. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
43. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
44. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
49. Any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification.
51. Minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
59. Found in warm waters of western Atlantic.
62. One million periods per second.
64. Small songbirds resembling larks.
65. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
67. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
70. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
71. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
72. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
75. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
76. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
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