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1. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
5. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
12. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. A decree that prohibits something.
16. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
17. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A bachelor's degree in religion.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
33. Jordan's port.
36. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
37. Having branches.
39. A Hindu prince or king in India.
43. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
44. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC).
47. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
49. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
50. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
51. An associate degree in applied science.
52. Type genus of the Hylidae.
53. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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1. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
2. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
3. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
8. An acute febrile highly contagious viral disease.
9. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
21. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
23. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
26. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
35. Collect or gather.
38. Suggestive of the supernatural.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
41. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
42. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
46. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
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