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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high).
12. Not reflecting light.
15. An accidental happening.
16. Of or relating to a caesura.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
20. Walk stealthily.
21. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
23. A prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor.
26. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
28. Type genus of the Anatidae.
32. A man who is a stupid fool.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
41. United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914).
42. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
44. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
45. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
47. Any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc.
49. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
50. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
52. Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939).
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
57. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
62. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
66. Lock up in jail.
69. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
72. (archaic) A fitting reward.
73. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
75. A town in north central Oklahoma.
76. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
77. A sock that reaches just above the ankle.
78. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
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1. Elegant and stylish.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
4. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
6. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
7. A battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.
8. Sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
9. (botany) Of some seeds.
10. (British) Your grandmother.
11. A kind of person.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
24. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
25. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
27. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
29. Of or relating to the nervous system.
30. True firs.
31. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
33. Not divisible by two.
34. A person who owns or operates oil wells.
35. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness.
37. The absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter.
38. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
40. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
43. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
46. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
48. Inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration.
51. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
53. A diluting agent.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
58. A unit of pressure.
59. Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit.
60. A city in southeastern South Korea.
61. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
63. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
64. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
65. Rounded like an egg.
67. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
70. An argument opposed to a proposal.
71. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
74. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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