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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. (Welsh) A warrior god.
12. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
13. A human limb.
14. A tight-fitting headdress.
15. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
18. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
22. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. The cry made by sheep.
27. In bed.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
46. A couple who both have careers and no children.
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. English essayist (1775-1834).
51. The residue that remains when something is burned.
52. Tag the base runner to get him out.
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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. Divulge information or secrets.
3. A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces.
4. A state in north central United States.
5. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
6. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
7. A light touch or stroke.
8. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
9. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
10. A city in northern India.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. A master's degree in fine arts.
21. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
23. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
30. A Mid-Atlantic state.
32. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
33. Form or weave into a braid or braids.
36. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
38. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
39. Type genus of the Anatidae.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. The habitation of wild animals.
47. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
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