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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
10. An honorary degree in science.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. (zoology) Pertaining to alulae.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Island in West Indies.
18. United States space station.
20. An informal conversation.
21. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
23. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
24. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
25. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
27. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
30. A soft whitish calcite.
34. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
39. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
45. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
46. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
48. An organization of military land forces.
49. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
57. A meeting for boat races.
61. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
62. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
63. (anatomy) A structure that resembles a shell in shape.
66. The cry made by sheep.
67. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
68. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
69. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
70. A state in northwestern North America.
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1. Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction.
2. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
3. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
4. A flexible container with a single opening.
5. A town in central Belgium.
6. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
9. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
10. Disposed of to a purchaser.
11. Wearing or provided with clothing.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
19. Not only so, but.
22. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. God of death.
31. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
33. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
35. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
36. Any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone.
37. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
38. Jordan's port.
42. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
51. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
54. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
55. Toward the mouth or oral region.
56. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
58. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
59. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
60. Used of a single unit or thing.
64. A radioactive transuranic element.
65. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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