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1. A city in north central Morocco.
4. God of love and erotic desire.
8. The player judged to be the most important to the sport.
11. A kind of person.
12. Morally bad or wrong.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
16. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
18. The cry made by sheep.
21. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
25. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
27. A master's degree in fine arts.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
37. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
43. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
44. Strike suddenly and with force.
46. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
47. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
48. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
49. Material used to daub walls.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
3. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. The eleventh month of the civil year.
6. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. Some point in the air.
9. Characteristic of false pride.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. A master's degree in business.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. A thrusting blow with a knife.
22. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
28. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
29. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
32. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
33. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
34. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
38. Divulge information or secrets.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
45. An informal term for a father.
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