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ACROSS
1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. A handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood.
12. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. A port in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river.
20. A popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies.
22. British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979).
24. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
26. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
27. (informal) Inclined to club together.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. (optics) Varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape.
34. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
37. The capital of Malta.
39. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
41. Slightly open.
42. A small island.
45. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
46. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
51. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
54. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.
55. Type genus of the Ranidae.
56. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
58. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
59. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
60. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
61. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
64. Having or localized centrally at a focus.
66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
75. A bachelor's degree in theology.
76. The front limb (or homologous structure in other animals such as a flipper or wing).
77. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
78. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
79. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits. 80. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A young (film) actress who is publicized as a future star.
5. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
6. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
7. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
8. A deep pulsating type of pain.
9. A plant fiber used for making rope.
10. An associate degree in nursing.
11. An intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving.
12. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
13. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (18951982).
14. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
21. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
23. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
25. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
28. A nettle yielding fiber resembling flax.
29. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
32. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
33. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
35. An unwholesome atmosphere.
36. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
38. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
40. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
43. 16 ounces.
44. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. An intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs.
49. A sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds.
50. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
52. A Loloish language.
53. A town in southwestern Oregon.
57. Troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace.
62. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
63. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
65. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
71. A master's degree in fine arts.
72. Distant but within sight.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.