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1. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
5. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. A recognizable kind.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A boy or man.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
15. A decree that prohibits something.
16. A master's degree in business.
17. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
19. State in northeastern India.
21. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
32. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
33. A light touch or stroke.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. (informal) Of the highest quality.
41. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
42. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
43. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
46. A city in the European part of Russia.
47. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
49. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
51. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
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1. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
2. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
3. Jordan's port.
4. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
6. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. An awkward stupid person.
20. A fraudulent business scheme.
23. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
25. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
27. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
31. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
34. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
35. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. A doctor's degree in education.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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