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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. Say mean things.
12. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live.
17. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
22. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
24. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
25. The part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum.
26. A three-year law degree.
29. A French abbot.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
39. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
42. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
44. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
46. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
47. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
48. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).
49. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
51. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
52. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
56. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
59. Of or relating to the spleen.
61. Related on the mother's side.
63. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
65. The distinctive spirit of a people or an era.
67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
71. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
74. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
76. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
77. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
78. Jewelled pendant worn on a chain around the neck.
80. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
81. A doctor's degree in education.
82. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
83. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. By bad luck.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. The act of scanning.
4. (botany) Especially of leaves.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
9. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
10. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. In an unnatural eery manner.
12. Transient cessation of respiration.
13. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
14. Give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect.
21. Verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines.
23. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. The agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered.
31. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
33. Two items of the same kind.
34. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
36. Of or relating to a fetus.
38. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
40. City in Sudan.
41. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
43. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
45. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
50. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
53. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
54. Made uninhabitable.
55. A notable achievement.
58. As the agent of or on someone's part.
60. (archaic) Of persons.
62. A water wheel with buckets attached to the rim.
64. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
66. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
68. Type genus of the Amiidae.
69. South African term for `boss'.
70. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
72. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
73. A decree that prohibits something.
75. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
79. A state in New England.
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