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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
10. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
14. An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger.
15. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
16. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
17. A language group of the Hokan family.
19. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
25. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
28. Fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms.
32. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
34. An island of central Hawaii.
35. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
36. The cry made by sheep.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A kind of person.
42. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
45. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
48. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
50. Highly excited.
54. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
56. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
57. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
58. The event of dying or departure from life.
61. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
62. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
63. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. Type genus of the Apidae.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. The act of scanning.
4. Common Indian weaverbird.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
8. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
9. Before noon.
10. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
11. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
12. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
18. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
20. By bad luck.
22. A loose cloak with a hood.
23. A three-tone Chadic language.
24. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. God of the earth.
29. The basic unit of money in Peru.
30. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.
31. A metallic tapping sound.
33. In bed.
37. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac.
38. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
39. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
43. 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.
44. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
48. An associate degree in nursing.
49. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
50. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
51. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
52. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
53. Offering fun and gaiety.
55. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
59. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
60. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
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