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1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
10. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998.
15. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
19. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
23. (informal) Exceptionally good.
26. Noisy talk.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
30. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
31. Noisy talk.
35. Squash bugs.
39. Having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number.
40. 1/10 gram.
41. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
42. The residue that remains when something is burned.
52. Discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization, in psychoanalysis.
56. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
57. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
58. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
63. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
65. (British) Your grandmother.
66. Dearly loved.
67. A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. By bad luck.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. The act of scanning.
4. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
7. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
8. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
9. Minor or subordinate.
10. A Loloish language.
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
12. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
18. A resin used in adhesives and paints.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
28. Type genus of the Anatidae.
29. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
32. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
33. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
34. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
38. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
46. Big-eyed scad.
47. A state in midwestern United States.
48. Unknown god.
49. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
53. Moderate or restrain.
54. Type genus of the Ranidae.
55. An open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food.
59. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
60. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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