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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
10. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
13. A quantity of money.
14. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
15. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
16. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
18. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
19. A castrated tomcat.
20. Any of various plants of the genus Aralia.
22. Any opponent of technological progress.
24. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
26. Not widely known.
28. A transuranic element.
35. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
38. (informal) Of the highest quality.
39. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
40. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
43. A desert in southern Israel.
46. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
49. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
52. The face or front of a building.
56. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
58. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
61. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
62. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
63. The first light of day.
64. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
65. An associate degree in applied science.
66. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
67. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
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1. State in northeastern India.
2. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
3. Slanderous defamation.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
7. A young woman.
8. The feeling of being bored by something tedious.
9. Advanced in years.
10. (medicine) Chilly.
11. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
12. To fix or set securely or deeply.
17. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. Any of various units of capacity.
29. A state in New England.
30. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
31. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
32. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
33. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
37. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
41. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
42. An enclosed space.
44. Any plant of the genus Erica.
45. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
47. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
48. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
51. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
53. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
54. An informal term for a father.
55. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
57. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
59. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
60. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
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