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1. The cry made by sheep.
4. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
11. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
15. A fraudulent business scheme.
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
19. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
24. A small piece of cloth.
27. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
32. A tight-fitting headdress.
33. The quantity contained in a keg.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
40. Hilly land.
44. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
45. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. One who works hard at boring tasks.
51. An informal term for a father.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
5. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. God of love and erotic desire.
8. Some point in the air.
9. South African term for `boss'.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
21. Any plant of the genus Erica.
23. A master's degree in business.
25. The sixth month of the civil year.
26. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
31. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
34. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
35. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
37. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
42. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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