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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. The specified day of the month.
8. A federally chartered savings bank.
11. The last (12th) month of the year.
12. In bed.
13. (Irish) The sea personified.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. An unofficial association of people or groups.
16. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A motley assortment of things.
21. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
28. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
35. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. Common Indian weaverbird.
48. A Hindu prince or king in India.
50. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
53. A boy or man.
54. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
55. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
56. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A light touch or stroke.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
7. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
8. An embarrassing mistake.
9. Stalk of a moss capsule.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
29. A three-year law degree.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
43. Slightly open.
44. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
46. Noisy talk.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
51. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
52. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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