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1. Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water.
4. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
8. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
11. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. A lump of hard consolidated mineral matter.
17. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
18. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
19. Liquid excretory product.
21. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.
28. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
31. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A tight-fitting headdress.
36. A light touch or stroke.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
45. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
50. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
53. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
2. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
3. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
4. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
6. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
7. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
8. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
9. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
20. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
22. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. South American cavy.
33. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
44. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
46. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects.
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