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1. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
4. A Loloish language.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
11. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. The month following February and preceding April.
14. Affect with wonder.
16. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
39. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. Wool of the alpaca.
44. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
45. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
46. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
50. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
51. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
52. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
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1. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
2. Avatar of Vishnu.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
4. In bed.
5. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
6. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
15. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
17. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
19. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. A Mid-Atlantic state.
31. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
32. A port city in southwestern Iran.
33. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
36. English essayist (1775-1834).
37. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. Temporary living quarters.
41. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
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