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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. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
12. A light touch or stroke.
15. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
16. A port and fashionable resort city on southern Mexico's Pacific coast.
17. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
18. A cgs unit of work or energy.
19. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
20. Greek mythology.
22. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
24. The square of a body of any size of type.
25. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.
26. The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy.
29. That is to say.
30. An informal term for a father.
31. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
35. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
40. Avatar of Vishnu.
41. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
43. God of love and erotic desire.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. The act of scanning.
47. An ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center.
49. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
50. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
52. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
54. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
55. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
57. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
60. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
62. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
63. Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar.
67. Army unit smaller than a division.
71. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages.
77. United States Film actress and daughter of Henry Fonda (born in 1937).
78. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
79. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
81. Being precisely fitting and right.
82. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
83. A flowering shrub.
84. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
2. Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979).
3. United States sculptor (born in 1924).
4. A river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico.
5. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
6. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
7. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
8. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
9. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
10. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
11. The Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola.
12. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
13. Chief port of Yemen.
14. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
21. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
23. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
27. Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life.
28. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
34. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
36. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
37. Squash bugs.
38. Jordan's port.
39. A Hindu prince or king in India.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
51. Air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog.
53. The cry made by sheep.
56. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
58. A shaped mass of baked bread.
59. Place in a grave or tomb.
61. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
64. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
65. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
66. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
68. Type genus of the Ranidae.
69. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
70. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
74. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
75. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
76. An argument opposed to a proposal.
80. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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