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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function. 4. Largest city in Washington. 11. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea. 15. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others. 16. Small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda. 17. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape. 18. Butter creamed with parsley and tarragon and beef extract. 20. Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter. 22. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography). 23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC). 25. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief. 26. A genus of Ploceidae. 28. Ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets. 30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite. 31. Of or relating to or involving an area. 32. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display. 36. A hereditary military dictator of Japan. 40. Someone who is morally reprehensible. 41. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects. 42. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research. 46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank. 47. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers. 50. Type genus of the Nepidae. 52. Lower in esteem. 53. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees. 54. Genus of herbs of southern United States. 57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens. 58. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb. 63. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction". 70. (Babylonian) The chief Babylonian god. 72. A cordial disposition. 73. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots. 74. Marked by extreme anger. 77. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia). 78. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands. 79. The basic unit of money in Mozambique. 80. A quantity of no importance. 6. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing. 7. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature. 8. An acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end. 9. Being one more than fifty. 10. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine). 11. One of two alternative forms of a genes that can have the same locus on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative traits. 12. A large quantity of written matter. 13. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security. 14. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851). 19. A member of an agricultural people of southern India. 21. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan. 24. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire. 27. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum. 29. The face or front of a building. 33. Being three more than forty. 34. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet. 35. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere. 37. A blind god. 38. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs. 39. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae. 43. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables. 44. An archaic name for Easter or Passover. 45. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery. 48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing. 49. Ground snakes. 51. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico. 55. In the same place (used when citing a reference). 56. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 59. Transient cessation of respiration. 60. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious. 61. Bright with a steady but subdued shining. 62. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America. 64. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting. 65. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea. 66. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk. 67. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people. 69. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula. 71. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen. 75. 1,000,000,000 periods per second. 76. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.