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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae.
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
15. A case for containing a set of articles.
16. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
17. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
18. How long something has existed.
19. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
20. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name Agene) formerly used for bleaching and aging flour.
22. Found along western Atlantic coast.
25. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
28. With no effort to conceal.
29. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
33. A mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high).
37. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
39. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
41. Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating.
44. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
46. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
47. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
48. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
50. (nautical) Of an anchor.
52. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
54. Comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
57. Light carriage.
59. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
61. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
62. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
63. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
64. Unknown god.
65. Any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds.
69. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
71. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
73. A master's degree in business.
76. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
77. Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
80. American dramatist (1928- ).
81. Being six more than fifty.
82. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
84. A rapid bustling commotion.
85. Towards the side away from the wind.
86. A formal written defense of something you believe in strongly.
87. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
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1. Jordan's port.
2. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
3. Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor.
4. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
5. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
6. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
7. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
8. Squash bugs.
9. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
12. Make amendments to.
13. Something that hinders as if with bonds v 1.
14. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
21. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
23. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
30. Dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads.
31. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
32. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
34. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
35. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
36. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
38. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
40. The month following March and preceding May.
42. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
43. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. A fellow female member of a youth gang.
51. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
53. The basic unit of money in China.
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
58. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
60. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
66. A person who possesses great material wealth.
67. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
68. An inhabitant of Lappland.
70. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
72. A small cake leavened with yeast.
74. English monk and scholar (672-735).
75. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
78. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
79. A cgs unit of work or energy.
83. Being one more than one.
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