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1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. A motley assortment of things.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Used especially in treating bruises.
15. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A quantity of no importance.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. Some point in the air.
21. The property of being very small in size.
23. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
24. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
25. Accumulate on the surface.
28. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
30. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
34. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
39. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
41. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
43. A periodic paperback publication.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. Lower in esteem.
49. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
51. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
60. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
62. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
65. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
68. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
69. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
70. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
71. The basic unit of money in Romania.
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1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
2. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. A mountain peak in central Washington.
5. A bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases.
6. Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail.
7. The most important person in a group or undertaking.
8. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
9. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
10. American novelist (1909-1955).
11. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
12. By bad luck.
20. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
22. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
26. An informal term for a father.
27. The act of scanning.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
32. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
33. At or constituting a border or edge.
36. 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.
38. God of wealth and love.
40. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
42. One of the three Furies.
43. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
45. A French abbot.
48. An unofficial association of people or groups.
50. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
53. A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.
54. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
56. (informal) Exceptionally good.
57. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
58. A slender double-reed instrument.
59. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
61. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
66. A public promotion of some product or service.
67. Informal terms for a mother.
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