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1. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
5. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
8. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
11. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
12. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. A bottle with a stopper.
15. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
16. A public promotion of some product or service.
17. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
18. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
46. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
4. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
5. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
8. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
9. (informal) Exceptionally good.
10. A quantity of no importance.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. A light touch or stroke.
22. A decree that prohibits something.
23. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. An honorary arts degree.
33. Of or relating to alga.
34. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
35. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
37. In bed.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. An informal term for a father.
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