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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. Traveling on horseback.
10. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
13. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
14. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
15. A tight-fitting headdress.
16. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
17. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
19. A yellow quartz.
21. A lack of vitality.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
35. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
36. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
39. A town in central Belgium.
44. A Loloish language.
45. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
48. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
51. Spread or daub over.
53. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
57. A cgs unit of work or energy.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
62. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
63. King of the Huns.
65. Goddess of fate.
66. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
67. A haulage contractor.
68. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
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1. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
2. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
3. The event of something ending.
4. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
5. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
6. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
7. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
8. The act of scanning.
9. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
11. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
12. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
18. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. Squash bugs.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. An informal term for a father.
28. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
29. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
30. Imprudently incurring risk.
31. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
38. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
40. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. (Roman mythology) Goddess of agriculture.
47. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
49. A telegram sent abroad.
50. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
52. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
54. (Welsh) A warrior god.
55. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
56. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
59. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
60. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
64. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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