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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. Armor plate that protects the arm.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. To what extent or amount or degree.
16. Given official approval to act.
17. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
18. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
20. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
23. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
25. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
26. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
28. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
33. Type genus of the Hylidae.
34. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
38. Not at all or in no way.
40. Being one more than ninety.
42. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
43. Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair.
46. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
48. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
49. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
51. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
52. Informal terms for a mother.
53. Troubled emotionally and usually deeply.
56. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
58. Ancient Persian god of light and truth.
59. Shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort).
63. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
64. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
66. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
70. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
71. The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws.
74. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
75. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
76. A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England.
78. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
79. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
80. A port city in southwestern Iran.
81. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Colloquial British abbreviation.
2. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
3. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
4. Unwisely talking too much.
5. A state in New England.
6. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
7. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
8. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
9. Associated with academia or an academy.
10. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
11. A doctor's degree in religion.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
19. Small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage.
24. Australian clover fern.
27. Wool of the alpaca.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
35. Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities.
36. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976).
37. A large fleet.
39. The back side of the neck.
41. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
44. A city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Pittsburgh.
45. The fifth day of the week.
47. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
50. A throne that is the official chair of a bishop.
54. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
55. Used of mouth or eyes.
57. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
60. An expression of greeting.
61. Jordan's port.
62. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
65. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
67. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
68. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
69. A quantity of no importance.
72. (informal) Roused to anger.
73. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
77. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
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