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1. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
4. Type genus of the Anatidae.
8. Inquire about.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Avatar of Vishnu.
13. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
14. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
16. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
17. A city in northern India.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Inability to walk.
25. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. The template for protein synthesis.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
43. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
46. Not easy.
47. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
48. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
2. An unforeseen obstacle.
3. A battle in the Napoleonic campaigns (1809).
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. A quantity of no importance.
6. Before noon.
7. An enclosed space.
8. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
9. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
10. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
19. The cry made by sheep.
20. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Filled with fear or apprehension.
31. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
35. An enclosed space.
37. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
38. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
40. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
41. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
42. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
45. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
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