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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
15. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
16. A river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay.
17. The month following October and preceding December.
18. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
20. Coconut palms.
21. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
22. Praise formally and eloquently.
24. In operation or operational.
26. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
28. After noon.
30. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
31. A genus of Platalea.
33. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
35. Moderate or restrain.
38. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
41. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
46. A thin cylindrical pointed writing implement.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Half the width of an em.
51. Having a melody (as distinguished from recitative).
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
57. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
60. Any plant of the genus Erica.
62. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
72. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
75. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
77. An Eskimo hut.
79. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
81. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
82. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
83. A colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs.
84. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
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1. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
2. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
3. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
4. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
5. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
8. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
9. A city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle.
10. Extremely robust.
11. A city in north central Morocco.
12. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
13. 1 species.
14. United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971).
19. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
23. Stalk of a moss capsule.
25. Constitution of the human body.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
29. The capital of Lesotho.
32. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
34. Of or relating to or produced by or being a gene.
36. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
37. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
39. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
40. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
42. Move deeply.
44. Lower in esteem.
47. Omnivorous mammal of Central and South America.
48. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
53. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
58. Top part of an apron.
61. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
63. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
64. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
66. Possessing material wealth.
67. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
69. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
70. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
73. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
74. A local computer network for communication between computers.
76. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
78. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
80. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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