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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
12. A unit of pressure.
15. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
16. Abusing vocally.
17. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
18. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
20. Largest city of Virginia.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. Gull family.
28. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
29. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
32. A squeaking sound.
36. Having cusps or points.
39. A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude.
41. Goddess of fate.
42. Discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization, in psychoanalysis.
44. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
45. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
47. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
49. Formed or conceived by the imagination.
52. An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq.
54. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
55. The square of a body of any size of type.
57. God of dawn and light.
58. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
60. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
61. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
64. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
67. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
71. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
73. A drama set to music.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. Enlarged prostate.
80. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
81. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
82. The fatty flesh of eel.
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1. Baby bed with high sides.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
8. Being nine more than forty.
9. Someone who makes or repairs tinware.
10. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
11. Someone who operates an aircraft.
12. Isolated from others.
13. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
14. British informal.
19. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
21. Robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers.
24. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
25. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
27. Used of a single unit or thing.
30. A state of social isolation.
31. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
33. Enclose in, or as if in, a case "my feet were encased in mud.".
34. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
35. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.
37. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
38. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
40. Chief of the Vanir.
43. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
48. A thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle.
50. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
51. The last (12th) month of the year.
53. Estrangement from god.
56. The most important league in any sport (especially baseball).
59. Greek mythology.
62. Having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty.
63. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. Being nothing more than specified.
66. The top edge of a vessel.
68. A French abbot.
69. The back side of the neck.
70. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
72. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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