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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
7. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Being one more than ninety.
13. Avatar of Vishnu.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
16. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A flexible container with a single opening.
20. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
32. 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.
35. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
41. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. Wild and domestic cattle.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
48. In or of the month preceding the present one.
49. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
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. Being nine more than eighty.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. Some point in the air.
7. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
10. Slightly wet.
18. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
27. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
30. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
31. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Jordan's port.
36. Absent without permission.
37. In or of the present month.
38. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
39. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
40. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
41. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
43. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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