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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. An abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column.
12. One or some or every or all without specification.
15. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
16. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice.
17. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
18. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
19. A father or mother.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
24. A person who gives private instruction (as in singing or acting).
26. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
30. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
33. A male human offspring.
34. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
43. Crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings.
46. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
53. A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter.
58. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
59. A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste.
61. A professional clown employed to to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages.
63. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
65. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
69. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
73. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
74. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
76. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
77. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
78. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
79. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
2. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. An accidental happening.
5. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
6. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
7. A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland.
8. A region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones.
9. A town in central Pennsylvania.
10. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
11. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
14. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
21. Unhappy in love.
23. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
25. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. Adopted in order to deceive.
35. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
36. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
37. (Mexican) Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.
39. A desert in central Asia.
40. A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
44. Having the characteristics of pitch or tar.
45. A tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes.
51. Greenish-yellow pear.
52. Small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters.
54. (informal) Of the highest quality.
55. Lean end of the neck.
56. Large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind.
57. Accord or comport with.
60. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
62. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
64. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
66. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
67. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
68. Type genus of the Ranidae.
70. Of southern Europe.
71. An accountant certified by the state.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. Being nine more than ninety.
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