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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Small songbirds resembling larks.
9. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
13. An audiotape recording of sound.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
18. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
19. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
20. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
21. United States filmmaker (born in 1939).
23. Boas and pythons.
25. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
29. A quantity of no importance.
30. One of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones.
32. A local computer network for communication between computers.
34. A White Protestant of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.
37. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
39. A path set aside for walking.
43. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
45. (Irish) War goddess.
47. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
52. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
53. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
55. Smallest merganser and most expert diver.
56. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
59. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
60. A small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra.
62. Thin-shelled freshwater mussels.
64. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
65. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
66. Related on the mother's side.
69. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
71. A young woman making her debut into society.
72. (Arthurian legend) The most virtuous knight of the Round Table.
75. Jordan's port.
78. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
80. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
84. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
85. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
87. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
88. Weapons considered collectively.
92. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
93. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
94. Cheese containing a blue mold.
95. Mother goddess.
97. (British) Your grandmother.
98. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
99. By bad luck.
100. Chief port of Yemen.
101. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
6. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits.
7. Make worse or less effective.
8. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
9. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
12. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
13. An informal term for a father.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
22. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
24. Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity).
26. Any high mountain.
31. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
33. The month following March and preceding May.
35. The state of being behind in payments.
36. The apical end of the style where pollen is deposited.
38. Innumerable but many.
40. Large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web.
41. Small Old and New World herons.
42. Last longer than others.
44. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
46. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
48. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
49. Free from dirt or impurities.
50. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
51. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
54. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
57. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
58. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
61. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
63. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
67. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
68. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state.
70. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
73. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
74. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
76. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands.
77. An oil port in southern Iraq.
78. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
79. Indigo bush.
81. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
86. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
89. A master's degree in business.
90. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
91. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
96. Not out.
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