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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 Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
11. An accidental happening.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
13. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
14. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
16. An informal term for a father.
17. Step on it.
18. Obvious and dull.
21. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
28. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
30. Offering fun and gaiety.
33. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
38. Not in operation or operational.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
48. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
50. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
51. An associate degree in applied science.
52. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
53. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. A swift whirling motion (usually of a missile).
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
8. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
9. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
10. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
15. An awkward stupid person.
19. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
32. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
37. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.
39. Any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
44. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
46. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
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