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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
5. The cry made by sheep.
8. A master's degree in fine arts.
11. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
14. English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991).
16. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
19. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
23. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
24. Relating to or near the radius.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. God of love and erotic desire.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
39. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
42. In bed.
43. Black tropical American cuckoo.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
48. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. An article deposited as security.
2. An elaborate song for solo voice.
3. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
4. State in northeastern India.
5. A vigorous blow.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
9. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
10. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
15. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
17. Jordan's port.
20. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
21. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
22. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. God of death.
28. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
31. Growing old.
32. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. A notable achievement.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. Extremely pleasing.
45. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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