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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
10. A unit of pressure.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. A South American river.
15. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
16. Obvious and dull.
18. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
19. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
20. (psychoanalysis) An idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood.
21. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
23. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. Lower in esteem.
29. 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.
33. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
39. Inability to walk.
42. The seed of the cereal grass.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. Porridge made of rolled oats.
46. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
49. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.
50. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
51. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
59. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
62. By bad luck.
63. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
64. A port city in southwestern Iran.
66. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
67. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
68. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
69. A rapid bustling commotion.
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1. Small Old World songbird with a reddish breast.
2. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
3. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
4. Antibiotic-resistant mycoplasma causing a kind of pneumonia in humans.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. The face or front of a building.
8. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
9. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
10. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
11. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
12. 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.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
24. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
25. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
28. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. Genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region.
32. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
37. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
38. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
42. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
45. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
47. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Wearing or provided with clothing.
53. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
56. A genus of European owls.
58. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A shape that sags.
65. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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