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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. Not reflecting light.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Young sheep.
16. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
17. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
23. A master's degree in business.
24. An accountant certified by the state.
31. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
34. American novelist (1909-1955).
39. (informal) Roused to anger.
42. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
43. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. A notable achievement.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
2. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
3. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. A decree that prohibits something.
19. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
25. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. A state in New England.
29. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
30. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
32. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
33. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
35. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
36. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
38. A quantity of no importance.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
41. The cry made by sheep.
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