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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. Falling out of hair.
12. Extremely pleasing.
15. Towards the side away from the wind.
16. An inhaled bronchodilator (trade name Atrovent).
17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. Solitaire with two players using separate packs.
20. Being two more than fifty.
21. Any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup.
23. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
24. Artificial and inferior.
26. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
28. Low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves.
30. A formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person.
33. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
34. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
37. 1/1000 gram.
40. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
43. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
45. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
49. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
50. Located or originating from above.
53. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
55. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
56. The sacred city of Lamaism.
58. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
60. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
62. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
65. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
67. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
71. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
73. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
75. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
76. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
77. Characteristic of or resembling hell.
79. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
80. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
81. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
82. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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1. By bad luck.
2. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
3. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
4. An ancient board game resembling backgammon.
5. The dense colorless framework of a chloroplast.
6. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
7. A slow pace of running.
8. Hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers.
9. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
10. An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term).
11. The flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs.
12. Related to or having filaments especially across a field of view.
13. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease.
14. 1,000 baiza equal 1 riyal-omani.
22. Small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae.
25. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
27. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
29. Either extremity of something that has length.
31. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.
32. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes.
36. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
38. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
39. Of or relating to the feet.
41. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
42. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
44. (informal) Exceptionally good.
46. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap.
51. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
59. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
64. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
66. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
68. A city in northern India.
69. 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.
70. English essayist (1775-1834).
72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
74. Black tropical American cuckoo.
78. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
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