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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. (Judaism) A Jewish harvest festival.
11. A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval).
15. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
16. In need of oil treatment.
17. One thousandth of a second.
18. Hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange.
20. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
22. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
23. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
24. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.
25. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
27. Covered with paving material.
29. The act of escaping physically.
31. A woman of refinement.
33. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
36. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
39. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
42. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
44. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
46. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction.
48. A transuranic element.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. A bachelor's degree in science.
52. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
53. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
55. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
58. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
61. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
63. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
65. The basic unit of money in Finland.
69. Only the bowfins.
73. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
76. A master's degree in business.
77. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
78. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
80. A decree that prohibits something.
81. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
82. Not identified with a band.
83. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. (of speed) Having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level.
4. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
5. Leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo.
6. United States economist (born in the Netherlands) (1910-1985).
7. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
8. A song that was formerly popular.
9. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
10. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
11. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
12. A river in southeastern France.
13. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
21. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
26. With rapid movements.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.
34. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
35. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
37. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
38. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
40. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
47. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
51. Spread or diffuse through.
54. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
56. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
57. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
59. A member of an aboriginal people living in the hills in southeastern India.
60. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances).
62. Used of decomposing oils or fats.
64. A Mid-Atlantic state.
66. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
70. A disdainful pouting grimace.
71. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
72. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
74. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
75. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
79. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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