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1. An informal term for a father.
5. An enclosed space.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
12. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
13. A human limb.
14. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
15. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
20. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
22. (Old Testament) The fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel.
24. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
25. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
28. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A genus of Ploceidae.
36. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
38. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
39. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
45. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
46. A container.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. Go "ding dong", like a bell.
2. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
3. Large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
5. A fraudulent business scheme.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
8. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
9. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
10. A city in northern India.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. God of death.
21. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light.
30. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
32. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
36. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
37. A French abbot.
40. An associate degree in applied science.
41. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
42. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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