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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Fastened with a pin or staple.
11. Common black European thrush.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. The battle in which Attila the Hun was defeated by the Romans and Visigoths in 451.
17. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
18. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
19. The selling of something purchased.
21. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
23. Conforming to truth.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
31. Deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America.
35. Paint with red lead or vermilion.
38. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
39. The fatty flesh of eel.
40. Bearing or marked with a label or tag.
42. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
43. A rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand.
45. A drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria.
48. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
49. Marked by extreme anger.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
53. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
54. An uproarious party.
56. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
58. A musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it.
60. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
63. A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.
66. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
69. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
70. A member of the Caddo people of NE Texas.
72. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
73. A strong emotion.
74. French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland.
76. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
77. An informal term for a father.
78. (sports) With hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level.
79. (British) Sleep.
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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. Lean end of the neck.
5. The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet.
6. An associate degree in applied science.
7. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph containing no cells and in which erythrocytes and leukocytes and platelets are suspended.
8. A Loloish language.
9. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
10. An honorary degree in science.
11. Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation.
12. A town in north central Oklahoma.
13. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
14. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
20. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
22. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
24. The father of your father or mother.
26. Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws.
28. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
29. Lacking leadership.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound.
33. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
34. The ratio of reflected to incident light.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
41. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
44. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
46. Aromatic gum resin.
47. Read anew.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. The time when something ends.
55. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
57. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
59. A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed.
61. A genus of Mustelidae.
62. A republic in western South America.
64. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
65. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
67. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir and avenger of Balder.
68. A city in northwestern Syria.
71. Distant but within sight.
75. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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