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1. A French abbot.
5. A shape that sags.
8. A decree that prohibits something.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
15. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
20. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
22. In bed.
24. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
28. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. Give a nickname to.
40. Half the width of an em.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
47. Black tropical American cuckoo.
48. The lowest brass wind instrument.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
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1. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
4. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
5. A single splash.
6. Jordan's port.
7. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
8. Top part of an apron.
9. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
19. A genus of Pyralidae.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. Extremely pleasing.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
38. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
39. A straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions.
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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