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1. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
5. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
7. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
11. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
12. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
13. Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948).
14. United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996).
16. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
20. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
26. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
27. Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
37. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
42. The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled.
43. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
48. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
49. A decree that prohibits something.
50. In bed.
51. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. The habitation of wild animals.
5. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
6. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal.
9. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
10. Clean or orderly.
15. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
24. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
25. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
29. An insane person.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
35. Order by virtue of superior authority.
36. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
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