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1. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. Indicating the most important performer or role.
8. An informal term for a father.
11. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
12. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
18. 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.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
26. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
31. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. Coffee-flavored liqueur made in Mexico.
36. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. In bed.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
52. A light touch or stroke.
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1. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
8. Fallow deer.
9. By bad luck.
10. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
19. A sweet innocent baby.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
33. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
35. Jordan's port.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
40. God of love and erotic desire.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. God of the earth.
44. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
45. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
46. A tight-fitting headdress.
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