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1. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
4. Speaking a Slavic language.
8. An accountant certified by the state.
11. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
12. Especially one side of a leaf.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
15. The sixth month of the civil year.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
23. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
24. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. An official at a baseball game.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
45. An erratic deflection from an intended course.
46. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
47. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
48. The sign language used in the United States.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Set down according to a plan.
2. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Left-hand page.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
10. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
18. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
20. Type genus of the Amiidae.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
33. Deciduous shrub of North America.
34. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
35. Vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments.
37. Type genus of the Anatidae.
38. Shout loudly and without restraint.
40. God of death.
42. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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