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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. God of love and erotic desire.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
11. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
12. Armor plate that protects the chest.
13. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
14. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
15. A vigorous blow.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
20. A state in northwestern North America.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. The sixth month of the civil year.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
36. A light touch or stroke.
38. Extremely pleasing.
41. An associate degree in applied science.
46. By bad luck.
48. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
49. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
50. The emotion of hate.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. A gully that is shallower than a ravine.
54. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
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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. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A young woman.
7. The residue that remains when something is burned.
8. 10 grams.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Being one more than one hundred.
32. The cry made by sheep.
34. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
37. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
38. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
39. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
47. Fasten by sewing.
52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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