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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. Somewhat soft.
12. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
15. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Fornax and Cetus.
17. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
18. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
19. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Small cold-water silvery fish.
23. Half the width of an em.
24. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Old Testament considered as a unit.
26. The inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus.
29. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
30. Squash bugs.
31. A bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting.
36. Of or relating to two people who are married to each other.
39. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. A genus of Mustelidae.
42. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
43. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
45. Open to debate.
46. A tight-fitting headdress.
49. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
53. Divided into two lobes.
55. The probability of a specified outcome.
58. Disciple of Jesus and leader of the apostles.
60. (Britain) Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea.
64. A mining town in southern Wales.
67. Not subjected to an aging process.
68. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
69. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
72. Any loose flowing garment.
73. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
74. Extravasation of urine into the scrotal sac.
76. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
77. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
78. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
2. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Lupus and Ara in the Milky Way.
3. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
4. A person employed to watch for something to happen.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A genus including the common European kits.
7. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
8. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
9. Genus of European subshrubs or herbs having pink or purple or yellow solitary or clustered flowers.
10. Providing enjoyment.
11. Blood-sucking African fly.
12. The eighth month of the civil year.
13. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
14. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
22. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
25. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
27. An informal term for a father.
28. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
32. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
33. A discrete unit of living matter.
34. Become ground down or deteriorate.
35. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
37. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
38. Urge or force (a person) to an action.
40. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
44. Of the nature of or undergoing an experiment.
47. One at a disadvantage and expected to lose.
48. A city in Indonesia.
50. The dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted.
51. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
54. Spread or daub over.
56. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
57. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
59. The German state.
61. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
62. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
65. A lyric poet.
66. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
70. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
75. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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