Crossword Puzzle Number 588 (Medium Grid)

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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Direct or control.
11. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters.
17. Made of fir or pine.
18. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
19. Used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat.
20. An elaborate song for solo voice.
21. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
23. Wet through and through.
25. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
27. A Mid-Atlantic state.
28. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
29. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
35. Of or being the lowest female voice.
36. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
40. A short personal letter.
41. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
42. Land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
47. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
48. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
51. Primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord (a notochord) conspicuous in the larva.
54. An associate degree in nursing.
55. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
56. A genus of Stromateidae.
58. Unknown god.
62. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
64. Jostling with the elbows.
67. An advanced law degree.
68. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
71. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
72. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
73. Free from sin.
74. Worthless people.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. The academic world.
77. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.

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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. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
5. Type genus of the Plataleidae.
6. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
7. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
8. Black tropical American cuckoo.
9. In or of a state of physical or nervous tension.
10. (used as a sentenced connector) Therefore or consequently.
11. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
12. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
13. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
14. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
22. Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores.
24. A unit of weight used in some parts of Asia.
26. Emperor of Rome who introduced a degree of freedom after the repressive reign of Domitian.
30. A favorite saying of a sect or political group.
31. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
33. (trademark) A German semiautomatic pistol.
34. Appeal or request earnestly.
37. Offspring of a male tiger and a female lion.
38. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
39. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
44. Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
46. A town in eastern Alabama.
49. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
50. Lacking motor coordination.
52. The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth.
53. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
57. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
59. (Greek mythology) A sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine.
60. Make oneself subject to.
61. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
63. Divulge information or secrets.
65. Serving as or forming a base.
66. A thin coat of water-base paint.
69. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
70. An honorary law degree.

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