NOUN: "a specialized function or mechanism (such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch) by which an animal receives and responds to external or internal stimuli" Crossword Clue

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NOUN: "a specialized function or mechanism (such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch) by which an animal receives and responds to external or internal stimuli" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
2. sound practical judgment
(verb)
1. perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
2. become aware of not through the senses but instinctively

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SPECIALIZED (adjective)
1. developed or designed for a special activity or function
MECHANISM (noun)
1. the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
2. the technical aspects of doing something

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Across

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15. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "island of Hawaii in the Pacific where the city of Honolulu is located"

16. Send to someone else

17. Punishable infraction

18. Word before house or brother

19. NOUN: "a variable color averaging a pale yellow"

20. IDIOM: "used in speech to show that one is exactly repeating someone else's words"

23. First prime minister of Burma (hint: his name is a palindrome)

24. Personal connections

25. Like boat rides, often

29. Playful swimmer

31. Jeans name

32. Overly much

33. NOUN: "any of a genus...of theropod dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous having a long head with a flat snout and a large sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each foot"

38. California city home to TV's "Bionic Man"

41. Icon of olf San Antone

42. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "David 1711–1776 Scottish philosopher and historian"

43. IDIOM: "used to express agreement or approval"

46. ___ Marie Saint (101-year-old Hollywood great)

47. Point of no return

48. Long Island city

52. NOUN: "to change the [frequency] of (something)"

54. Barinholtz in "The Mindy Project"

56. About when you'll show up, briefly

57. NOUN: "private matters whose public exposure brings distress and embarrassment"

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64. INTERJECTION: "used informally like 'well' (as to introduce a remark expressing resignation or disappointment)"

65. "The Candy House" novelist Jennifer

66. Sea's superior

67. Treacherous character

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1. Hig ghost haunts Macbeth

2. NOUN: "the total number or quantity"

3. Didn't have any more

4. NOUN: "a bond of union; especially: the marriage bond"

5. A real drag

6. Brings home

7. "Inside the NBA" commentator

8. NOUN: "a short projecting skirt worn by a ballerina"

9. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "country of northeastern Africa bordering on the Red Sea"

10. NOUN: "an embankment for preventing flooding"

11. Video game vehicle, sometimes

12. One of the German words for "the"

13. Suffix with cook or distill

21. Dublin's land, to Dubliners

22. A Midsummer Nights Dream king

26. Phrase to a turncoat

27. VERB: "to use [a certain] service to hold or participate in online meetings with enabled video support"

28. NOUN: "time past"

30. Peppa Pig's sister

31. Capital on the Pacific Ocean

34. Certain cavalryman

35. Word in touristy shop names

36. No gentlemen

37. Part of P.E.

38. Not having registered a base hit in a game, casually

39. NOUN: "glib, deceptive, or foolish talk"

40. Pre-med class (abbr.)

44. "Now We Are Six" author, 1927

45. God of Quebec

49. Accountant's book

50. "Can ___ with you?" ("Wanna swap?")

51. Button on many websites

53. Salon stuff

54. Volunteering phrase

55. Batman sound effect

58. Potential branch

59. 26-fortnight period

60. Unskilled gamer

61. Abbr. in some blood types

62. Home ___ (hockey advantage)

63. COMBINING FORM: "foreign"

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