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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. Dragonflies and damselflies.
11. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
15. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
16. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
17. A sudden short attack.
18. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
21. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
22. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
23. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
24. Having or resembling a beak.
26. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
29. A unit of resistance equal to one million ohms.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. Love intensely.
40. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.
43. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
44. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way.
49. A second-rate prize fighter.
50. A yearning for something or to do something.
53. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
55. A member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th century.
56. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
57. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
60. A light flintlock musket.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
69. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
71. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
72. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
73. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
75. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
76. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
77. Small genus of shrubs and subshrubs of western United States having flowers that change color as they mature.
78. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Baby bed with high sides.
2. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Discharge from the external ear.
5. An uproarious party.
6. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
7. Given or having a specified name.
8. A primeval personification of air and breath.
9. The bill in a restaurant.
10. Jordan's port.
11. A large fleet.
12. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
13. Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873).
25. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
27. Before noon.
28. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
30. A city in northwestern Turkey.
31. (Greek mythology) Any of three winged sister monsters having live snakes for hair.
33. The capital of the state of Kansas.
34. A member of a European light cavalry unit.
36. Similar to the color of jade.
37. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
38. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
39. A person of subnormal intelligence.
41. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
42. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
45. A native or inhabitant of Spain.
46. Of or being the lowest female voice.
48. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
51. A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste.
52. One who intrudes or pushes himself forward.
54. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
58. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
59. On or toward the lee.
61. Being seven more than fifty.
63. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
64. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
65. A city in northern India.
67. The residue that remains when something is burned.
68. An accountant certified by the state.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
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