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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
5. British informal term.
8. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. World's longest river (4187 miles).
15. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
16. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
17. In a willing manner.
20. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
34. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
35. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
38. Very dark black.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
47. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
48. A flexible container with a single opening.
49. A town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. Fiddler crabs.
52. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
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1. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. In bed.
5. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
6. (informal) Of the highest quality.
7. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
10. An informal term for a father.
18. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
19. Informal terms for a mother.
21. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
23. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
33. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
40. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
41. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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