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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. An important god.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
15. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
21. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
23. Formerly a gold coin of various European countries.
25. The seventh and last day of the week.
26. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
39. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
41. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
48. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
51. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
55. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
58. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
60. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
61. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
63. English monk and scholar (672-735).
64. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
65. Plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office.
66. The sixth month of the civil year.
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1. By bad luck.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
5. A city in the European part of Russia.
6. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
7. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
8. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
9. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
10. The capital and largest city of France.
11. Jordan's port.
12. The capital of Morocco.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
27. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
28. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
35. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. Send out rays or waves.
40. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
42. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
47. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
49. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
50. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
52. In bed.
53. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
54. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
56. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
57. Not in good physical or mental health.
59. A master's degree in business.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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