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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Spanish painter (born in Greece) remembered for his religious works characterized by elongated human forms and dramatic use of color (1541-1614).
9. Not agitated.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
15. Type genus of the family Ulvaceae.
16. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
17. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
18. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
19. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
21. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
32. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
34. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
35. Lower in esteem.
37. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
41. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
45. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
48. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
52. Common Indian weaverbird.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. Freed from illness or injury.
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
63. Regional and archaic.
65. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
66. The basic unit of money in Albania.
67. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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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 Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
5. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
6. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
7. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
8. Planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork.
9. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
10. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
11. Being seven more than fifty.
12. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
20. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
24. An associate degree in applied science.
26. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
27. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. An informal term for a father.
29. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
30. The residue that remains when something is burned.
31. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. Spread or daub over.
39. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
43. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
47. True firs.
49. Type genus of the Bramidae.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
53. On or toward the lee.
54. Noisy talk.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
60. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
64. An honorary degree in science.
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