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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
7. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
11. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
12. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
18. Informal terms for a mother.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
28. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
31. A fraudulent business scheme.
34. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
37. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
41. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
43. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
44. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
47. The habitation of wild animals.
48. The fatty flesh of eel.
49. In bed.
50. Late time of life.
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1. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
2. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
3. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
9. In the Roman calendar.
10. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
16. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. An enclosed space.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
29. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
32. A tort consisting of false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person.
33. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
35. The head of the Roman Catholic Church.
36. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
37. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
38. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
39. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
40. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
41. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
42. A light touch or stroke.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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