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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Brief and to the point.
9. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
13. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
17. United States playwright (1906-1963).
18. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
19. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. (Sumerian) Sun god.
21. At or constituting a border or edge.
22. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
24. A boy or man.
26. Advanced in years.
28. Provide with a terrace, as of a house.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718).
34. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
39. Pierce with a sharp stake or point.
45. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
46. The capital and largest city of France.
47. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
48. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
49. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).
51. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
54. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
55. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
56. A doctor's degree in religion.
57. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
60. Roar louder than.
66. A shape that sags.
68. Wife of Ahab who was king of Israel.
70. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
71. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
73. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
76. Sweet-potato whitefly.
80. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
82. Old breed of tall swift keen-eyed hunting dogs resembling greyhounds.
84. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
85. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
89. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
90. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
91. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
93. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
94. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
95. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
96. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
97. An honorary law degree.
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1. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
2. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.
3. Short and fat.
4. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
5. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
6. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
7. (literary) Spirited horse for state or war.
8. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
9. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
10. (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology.
11. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
12. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
13. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
14. By bad luck.
15. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
23. Promoting peace.
25. An Anatolian language.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
31. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
35. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
36. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
37. French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687).
38. Of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics.
40. Yellowwood trees or shrubs.
41. (of tempo) Very fast adv 1.
42. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
43. In bed.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
52. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
53. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
58. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
59. The bill in a restaurant.
61. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
62. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
63. Design anew, make a new design for.
64. An interruption in the intensity or amount of something.
65. Diffusing warmth and friendliness.
67. The capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river.
69. An African river.
72. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
74. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
75. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
77. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.
78. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
79. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
81. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
82. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
83. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
86. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
87. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
88. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
92. An expression of greeting.
93. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
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