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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. The act of rowing as a sport.
10. A light touch or stroke.
13. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
14. A deficiency of red blood cells.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
18. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
19. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
20. A ray of sunlight.
23. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
26. One million periods per second.
28. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
34. Characteristic of a baby.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
43. Treated with contempt.
45. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
57. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
59. A lack of vitality.
62. Either extremity of something that has length.
63. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. How long something has existed.
67. The basic unit of money in Romania.
68. A genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF.
69. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
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1. Type genus of the Apidae.
2. A Loloish language.
3. Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so.
4. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
5. In operation or operational.
6. A German city near Leipzig.
7. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
8. (British slang) An unpleasant smell.
9. Bright and pleasant.
10. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
12. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
17. The address where a person lives.
21. In bed.
22. Made of or resembling lace.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. A small island.
31. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. A French abbot.
46. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
47. Smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
53. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
56. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
58. (informal) Of the highest quality.
60. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
61. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
64. An associate degree in nursing.
65. 16 ounces.
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