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1. A small nail.
5. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
8. A human limb.
11. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
12. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
15. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
16. A son who has the same first name as his father.
17. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
20. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
28. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
31. Before noon.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. The sixth month of the civil year.
36. A small vessel for travel on water.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. A boy or man.
48. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
49. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
2. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
3. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
4. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
5. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
8. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
9. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
10. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
18. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A native of ancient Troy.
29. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. A genus of Ploceidae.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. Made of fir or pine.
36. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
37. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
38. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
42. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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