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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. Large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk.
12. The sign language used in the United States.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Granular protein in outermost layer of endosperm of many seeds or cereal grains.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. An ornamental flower garden.
20. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
21. British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979).
23. A door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall.
25. Do wrongly or improperly.
28. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
30. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
33. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
34. An East Indian sailor.
38. An opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture.
41. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
42. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
43. A doctor's degree in education.
46. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
48. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
50. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
51. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
53. A speaker who lisps.
55. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
56. A distinguished female operatic singer.
59. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
62. The post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs.
64. A port city in southwestern Iran.
66. In a refined manner.
70. An advanced law degree.
71. Defeated in a competition.
74. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
75. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
76. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
78. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
79. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. Absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously.
81. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
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1. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
7. Someone who leaves one country to settle in another.
8. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
9. Situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north.
10. Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness.
11. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A fraudulent business scheme.
14. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
22. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
24. United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (born in 1935).
26. Wearing footgear.
27. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
29. An inhabitant of Lappland.
31. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
32. Relatively large in size or number or extent.
35. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
36. Small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects.
37. Undergo resorption.
39. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
40. The habitation of wild animals.
44. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
45. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
47. Found pleasant or attractive.
49. An informal term for a father.
52. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
54. Engagingly stimulating or provocative.
57. A colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins.
58. Included seven times in every 19 years.
60. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
61. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
63. Of or belonging to an enemy.
65. Divulge information or secrets.
67. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
68. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
69. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
72. Outer space as viewed from the earth.
73. Being one more than nine.
77. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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