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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. (botany) Especially of leaves.
9. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
13. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
15. Capital and largest city of Italy.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
18. In bed.
19. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. Able to perceive sound.
23. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
26. Affectedly dainty or refined.
27. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
29. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
30. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. 32nd President of the United States.
38. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
47. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
50. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
51. A language of Australian aborigines.
54. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
57. Any high mountain.
58. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
62. A period of time spent sleeping.
63. Being in competition.
64. Using speech rather than writing.
65. One or some or every or all without specification.
66. English monk and scholar (672-735).
67. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
3. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. The seventh and last day of the week.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
9. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
10. Small Old World songbird with a reddish breast.
11. A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence.
12. Covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants).
20. An informal term for a father.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. A son who has the same first name as his father.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
39. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
40. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
41. An inland sea in northwestern Turkey.
42. (Irish) The sea personified.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
46. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
48. United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941).
49. Quick and energetic.
52. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
53. Cleanse (one's body) with soap and water.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. Offering fun and gaiety.
59. (informal) Roused to anger.
60. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
61. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
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