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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. Beside one another in a row or rank.
11. A French abbot.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
16. A shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep.
17. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Dressed in a habit.
20. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
21. Send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code.
23. A sharp change in direction.
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
28. A spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain.
32. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
33. Take in solid food.
36. Pitching dangerously to one side.
39. Father of the storm gods Marut.
40. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
43. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
44. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
45. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
46. Free from risk or danger.
48. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
50. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
51. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
52. A large bonnet that shades the face.
55. One thousand periods per second.
57. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate.
60. A motley assortment of things.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
68. A rational motive for a belief or action.
71. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
72. God of the earth.
73. Any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds.
75. (British) Your grandmother.
76. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
77. A great raja.
78. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
3. An unforeseen obstacle.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. God of wealth and love.
6. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
7. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
8. Of or being the lowest female voice.
9. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
10. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
11. State capital and largest city of Georgia.
12. A special lineage.
13. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
14. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
22. A man who courts a woman.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
29. A town in north central Wisconsin.
30. Order by virtue of superior authority.
31. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
34. A medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures.
35. Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. The capital of Morocco.
41. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
42. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
47. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
49. European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body.
53. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
54. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
56. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
58. A republic in eastern Africa.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
61. In bed.
62. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
63. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
64. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
65. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
66. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
69. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
70. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
74. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
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