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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. A substance that abrades or wears down.
12. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. A flaming torch (such as are used in processions at night).
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
18. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
20. Plume thistles.
21. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
25. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
26. (British) Sleep.
27. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
29. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
32. One thousand periods per second.
34. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
35. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
37. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
39. Jostling with the elbows.
42. (informal) Of the highest quality.
43. The act of scanning.
46. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
54. A Russian river.
55. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
56. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
57. A bachelor's degree in science.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
62. An uproarious party.
63. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
66. French soldier said to be fearless and chivalrous (1473-1524).
69. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
70. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
72. A mask with a filter protects the face an lungs against poisonous gases.
75. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
76. Resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers.
79. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
80. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
81. Civet of Madagascar.
83. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
84. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
85. White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
3. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
4. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
5. Divulge information or secrets.
6. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
7. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
8. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
9. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
10. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
11. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
12. A well-known beach and resort area on Oahu Island southeast of Honolulu.
13. A conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic "Reynard the Fox".
14. A town in southwestern Idaho.
19. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
23. An East Indian sailor.
24. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
28. A large number or amount.
30. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
31. Informal terms for the mouth.
33. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
36. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
38. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
40. Given or having a specified name.
41. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
44. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
45. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
48. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
50. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
51. African mahogany trees.
52. Basic principles of the cosmos.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
58. A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
59. Tea tortrix.
61. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
64. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
65. The basic unit of money in Sri Lanka.
67. Softly bright or radiant.
68. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
71. Using speech rather than writing.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. God of love and erotic desire.
77. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
78. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
82. Unknown god.
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