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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. Wool of the alpaca.
10. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
13. The residue that remains when something is burned.
14. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
15. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
16. God of wealth and love.
18. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
19. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
20. An inlaid furniture decoration.
22. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
24. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
25. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
28. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
30. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
37. A strong emotion.
40. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
41. A quantity of no importance.
43. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. An ax used to slaughter cattle.
54. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
58. A large number or amount.
59. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
62. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
63. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
64. A permanent council of the United Nations.
66. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
67. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
68. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
69. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
70. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
2. (Assyrian) Chief god of the Assyrians.
3. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. The head of the Roman Catholic Church.
7. A port city in southwestern Iran.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
9. Lower in esteem.
10. The act of scanning.
11. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
12. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
17. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
21. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
23. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
26. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
27. In bed.
29. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
31. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
32. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
33. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
35. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
38. The second largest city in Tunisia.
39. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
42. Advanced in years.
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
50. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
51. A narrow way or road.
52. Very dark black.
53. A slender double-reed instrument.
54. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
55. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
56. An informal term for a father.
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. 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.
61. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
65. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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