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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
5. A federally chartered savings bank.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
13. The cry made by sheep.
14. World's longest river (4187 miles).
15. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
16. Give a nickname to.
17. A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area.
19. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. An uproarious party.
22. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
23. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
24. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
31. 1/10 gram.
32. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
33. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
34. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
47. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
48. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
49. A small piece of cloth.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
52. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. In bed.
5. Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
9. Of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people.
10. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
18. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
20. Someone who performs dangerous stunts to attract attention to himself.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
27. Take in solid food.
28. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
32. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
37. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
38. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
39. A city in northern India.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
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