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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
9. Fallow deer.
13. An informal term for a father.
16. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
17. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
18. Little known Kamarupan languages.
19. A strong emotion.
20. The award given to the champion.
22. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
24. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
25. Look forward to the probably occurrence of.
26. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
29. The process of leaching.
30. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
31. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
33. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
35. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
37. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
40. A primeval personification of air and breath.
43. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
46. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
49. Being one more than fifty.
50. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
55. Exactly vertical.
56. Any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon.
59. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
60. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
62. (informal) Of the highest quality.
64. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
65. A reddish-brown chloride of heme.
66. A poor white person in the southern US.
70. Jostling with the elbows.
73. A mite of the genus Acarus.
75. A game in which darts are thrown at a dartboard.
76. An East Indian sailor.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
80. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
84. (Scandinavian) Dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency.
89. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
90. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
93. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
94. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
95. A group of street musicians in Mexico.
97. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
98. On or toward the lee.
99. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
100. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
2. United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987).
3. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
4. A conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence.
5. A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
6. An honorary arts degree.
7. A state in midwestern United States.
8. Pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves).
9. An informal term for a father.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
14. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
15. The state of owing money.
21. A familiar name (often a shortened version of a person's given name).
23. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
32. A Russian river.
34. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
36. Wearing a turban.
38. A fibrous scleroprotein found in elastic tissues such as the walls of arteries.
39. Aromatic root of ginseng plants.
41. Feeling a need to see others suffer.
42. Made tough by habitual exposure.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
47. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
51. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
52. A Loloish language.
53. A New England state.
54. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
57. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
58. A large number or amount.
61. A unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter.
63. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
67. A streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine.
68. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
69. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
71. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
72. A rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand.
73. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
74. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
77. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
78. An upright that is a member in a door or window frame.
81. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
85. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
86. Any competition.
87. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
88. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
91. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
92. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
96. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
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