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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its inhabitants.
12. Top part of an apron.
15. The residue that remains when something is burned.
16. A personal attractiveness that enables you to influence others.
17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
18. Someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art.
20. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
21. Narrow-leaved green herbage.
23. Freetail bats.
26. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
32. Type genus of the Amiidae.
33. Of businesses and businessmen.
35. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
37. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep.
41. Something that remunerates.
42. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
45. Relating to or being a member of an ethnic group.
47. A person who was born in a particular place.
51. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
52. A person who eats human flesh.
53. Timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial.
55. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
57. A grant made by a law court.
58. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
61. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
63. Present reasons and arguments.
66. A smouldering fire.
72. United States tennis player (born in Yugoslavia in 1973).
73. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
75. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
76. Extremely robust.
79. Lacking in light.
80. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and North Asia.
81. A diuretic drug (trade name Esidrix and HydroDIURIL) used in the treatment of hypertension.
82. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. Deeply moved.
2. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
3. Wearing footgear.
4. Sour or bitter in taste.
5. Of or relating to theism.
6. Become hard or harder.
7. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
9. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
10. Before noon.
11. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
12. (Norse mythology) God of poetry and music.
13. A small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one.
14. An oil port in southern Iraq.
19. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
22. Old material that is slightly reworked and used again.
24. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
25. Armor plate that protects legs below the knee.
27. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
29. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
30. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
34. United States baseball player (born 1925).
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
39. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
40. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. Type genus of the Anatidae.
46. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
48. That is flowing inward.
49. English essayist (1775-1834).
50. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
54. Think moodily or anxiously about something.
56. Shaped like a dish.
59. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
60. Softly bright or radiant.
62. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
64. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
65. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
67. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
68. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
69. An informal term for a father.
70. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
71. Avatar of Vishnu.
74. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
77. A state in New England.
78. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
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