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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
14. An affirmative.
15. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
16. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
24. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
29. Divulge information or secrets.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
38. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
41. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
48. Using speech rather than writing.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
50. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
5. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. Fallow deer.
8. The last (12th) month of the year.
9. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. Covered with scabs.
19. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. Tag the base runner to get him out.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
30. Relating to the Lamaze method of childbirth.
31. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. Largest known toad species.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
42. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
44. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
45. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
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