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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. The superior of a group of nuns.
10. (informal) Roused to anger.
13. A small piece of cloth.
14. A severe shortage (especially a shortage of food).
15. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
17. Located, suited for, or taking place within a building.
18. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
19. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
21. Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.
23. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
29. Divulge information or secrets.
32. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
33. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
34. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
35. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
37. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
40. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. Making lively and joyful.
46. A mite of the genus Acarus.
50. Chief god.
51. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
52. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. An Italian game similar to tennis.
58. (British) Your grandmother.
59. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
61. A squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit.
62. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
63. Late time of life.
64. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
65. A rapid bustling commotion.
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1. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
2. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
3. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
4. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
5. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
6. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
7. Worn away as by water or ice or wind.
8. A person of unquestioning obedience.
9. A gesture involving the shoulders.
10. English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852).
11. A French abbot.
12. A person who acts and gets things done.
20. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A Hindu prince or king in India.
26. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
27. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
30. Chief port of Yemen.
31. (informal) Exceptionally good.
36. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
37. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
38. United States astronomer (1835-1909).
39. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
40. A gesture involving the shoulders.
41. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
43. The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
45. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz).
47. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. Type genus of the Soleidae.
53. A sudden short attack.
54. (prefix) Within.
57. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
60. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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