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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 member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
10. An audiotape recording of sound.
13. The younger of two major political parties in the United States.
14. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
15. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
16. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
18. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
19. Tag the base runner to get him out.
20. Regional and archaic.
21. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
23. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
25. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
26. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
28. Being one more than one.
29. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
34. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
35. An associate degree in applied science.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
41. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
48. Jordan's port.
51. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
53. The act of scanning.
55. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
58. Personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation.
60. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
61. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
62. A thrusting blow with a knife.
63. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
67. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
68. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. A shaped mass of baked bread.
3. Plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson).
4. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters).
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. A homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned.
8. Wool of the alpaca.
9. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
10. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
11. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
12. The lowest brass wind instrument.
17. Of or concerning the face.
22. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
24. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
27. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
30. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
32. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
33. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. An unforeseen obstacle.
40. A resident of Idaho.
42. By bad luck.
43. A festival featuring African-American culture.
44. Slightly open.
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
50. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
52. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
53. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
54. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
56. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. Not out.
65. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
66. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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