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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
10. A nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator.
13. A period of time spent sleeping.
14. Thrown together in a pile.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Lower in esteem.
19. A bar of sand.
22. An associate degree in nursing.
27. A soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative.
31. A genus of Ploceidae.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
36. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
37. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
38. An informal term for a father.
40. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
42. How long something has existed.
43. Not only so, but.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
55. An associate degree in applied science.
56. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
60. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
61. Silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs.
63. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
64. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars.
66. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
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1. Squash bugs.
2. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
3. The complete duration of something.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
7. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
8. Towards the side away from the wind.
9. A public promotion of some product or service.
10. Divulge information or secrets.
11. The act of traveling by foot.
12. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
18. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
20. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
21. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
23. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
26. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
29. (Sumerian) Sun god.
30. Female equine animal.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
39. A port in southwestern Scotland.
41. A light touch or stroke.
44. Any plant of the genus Erica.
45. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. Wild and domestic cattle.
49. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
50. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
51. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
52. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
53. A feeling of intense anger.
54. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
57. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
58. To an excessive degree.
62. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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