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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
7. A primeval personification of air and breath.
11. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
12. How long something has existed.
13. A polite name for any woman.
14. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
17. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
22. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
26. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
27. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. The content of cognition.
40. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
48. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
49. A doctor's degree in education.
50. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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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. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Seed of a pea plant.
7. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
8. 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.
9. Make editorial changes (in a text).
10. A stock exchange in New York.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
20. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
21. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
30. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
32. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
36. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
37. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
39. Fallow deer.
40. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
42. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
47. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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