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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. Accumulate on the surface.
10. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box.
15. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
16. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
17. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
19. Porridge made of rolled oats.
21. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
22. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
31. 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.
34. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
36. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
37. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
39. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
50. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
57. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
60. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
61. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
62. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
63. A French abbot.
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1. In addition.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. Singing jazz.
4. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
7. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
8. Having been read.
9. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
10. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
11. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
12. Type genus of the Nepidae.
18. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
20. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
23. Flat tableland with steep edges.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
27. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
29. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
30. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
32. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
33. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. Jordan's port.
40. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. American Revolutionary patriot.
43. A police officer who investigates crimes.
44. Capital of Nigeria in the center of the country.
46. Dearly loved.
47. In bed.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
52. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
55. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
56. A light touch or stroke.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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