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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. Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose.
11. United States baseball player (born in 1931).
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Deprive through death.
17. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
21. Tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces.
23. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. Any plant of the genus Erica.
27. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
30. A state in northwestern North America.
32. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
35. Deeply moved.
40. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
42. Tending to make sober or more serious.
45. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
46. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
47. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
48. Of or relating to a nail or claw or hoof.
50. Dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France.
52. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
55. State capital of New York.
56. An unforeseen obstacle.
59. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
61. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
62. The capital of Croatia.
64. Demand as being one's due or property.
70. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
71. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
74. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
75. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
76. United States golfer who was first to win all four major golf tournaments (1902-1999).
77. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
78. A narrow way or road.
79. A festival featuring African-American culture.
80. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
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1. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
2. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
3. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
4. Line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy.
5. Decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior.
6. A particular environment or walk of life.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
9. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
10. A Mid-Atlantic state.
11. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
12. Jordan's port.
13. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
14. A small hard fruit.
20. Draw back, as with fear.
22. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. South African writer (1903-1988).
29. Leap. jerk, bang (dialectal).
31. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
33. Haddock usually baked but sometimes broiled with lots of butter.
34. (law) A gift of personal property by will.
36. A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans.
37. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
38. A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans.
39. Division of a usually pinnately divided leaf.
41. By bad luck.
43. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
44. A motley assortment of things.
49. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
51. A town in central Pennsylvania.
53. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
54. Informal terms for a mother.
57. Greek mythology.
58. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
60. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
63. Derive or receive pleasure from.
65. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
66. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
67. Absent without permission.
68. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
69. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
72. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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