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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
5. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
11. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
12. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
13. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
14. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
15. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
16. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
23. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
25. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
29. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
46. Offering fun and gaiety.
47. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. The sixth month of the civil year.
50. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
51. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
4. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. How long something has existed.
7. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
8. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
9. Affected manners intended to impress others.
10. Socially incorrect in behavior.
18. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
19. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
20. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
21. By bad luck.
22. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
24. A doctor's degree in optometry.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
37. Advanced in years.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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