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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. A white trivalent metallic element.
7. Highly excited.
11. A French abbot.
12. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
13. (quantifier used with mass nouns) Great in quantity or degree or extent.
14. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
15. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
16. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
17. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
21. An affirmative.
23. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
25. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
27. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
30. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Extremely pleasing.
43. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
47. Avatar of Vishnu.
48. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. Type genus of the Anatidae.
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1. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
2. The address where a person lives.
3. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
5. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
6. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
7. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
8. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
19. Any plant of the genus Erica.
22. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A light touch or stroke.
29. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
33. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
34. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
36. A city in northern India.
37. God of love and erotic desire.
38. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A state in northwestern North America.
42. The cry made by sheep.
45. A state in northwestern North America.
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