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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
9. A book of the New Testament.
13. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
14. An island of central Hawaii.
15. Be agitated.
16. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
18. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
22. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
23. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
24. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
25. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. A French abbot.
40. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
43. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
50. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
54. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
58. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
59. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
60. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
62. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
63. The habitation of wild animals.
64. A young swan.
65. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. Type genus of the Apidae.
2. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
3. The act of scanning.
4. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
8. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
9. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
10. Coconut palms.
11. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
12. (formerly) A writing tablet made of slate.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Not only so, but.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. In bed.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
29. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
31. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
34. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
36. Divulge information or secrets.
38. Affect with wonder.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. A port city in southwestern Iran.
42. A state in midwestern United States.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam.
48. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
49. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
53. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
56. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
57. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
61. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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