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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. Any of several plants of the genus Galium.
12. The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros.
15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. An abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity or excitability.
17. Not in good physical or mental health.
18. A kind of sedan chair used in India.
20. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
21. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
22. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
25. A yard adjoining a barn.
28. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
29. Minor or subordinate.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
42. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
43. The eleventh month of the civil year.
44. Type genus of the Percidae.
45. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
46. A state of northeastern India.
48. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
49. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
50. Spanish painter best known for his portraits (1746-1828).
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
53. On or toward the lee.
55. Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something.
58. Ask for and get free.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
64. Inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus.
67. Genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips.
71. The sixth month of the civil year.
72. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
75. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
76. Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804).
77. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
79. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
80. At or constituting a border or edge.
81. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
82. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Jordan's port.
3. An area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq.
4. Broad in the beam.
5. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
6. A Mid-Atlantic state.
7. A violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family.
8. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
9. Cause annoyance in.
10. The sign language used in the United States.
11. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
12. Tropical Asian starlings.
13. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
14. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
19. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
23. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
24. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
31. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
33. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
34. East Indian annual erect herb.
35. (informal) Exceptionally good.
37. Fly a plane.
39. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
40. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
41. English monk and scholar (672-735).
47. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
54. A card game for 2 players.
56. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
57. The selling of something purchased.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
60. Mountain avens.
61. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
63. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
65. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
66. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
68. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
69. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
70. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
73. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
74. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
78. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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