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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. The residue that remains when something is burned.
15. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
19. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
24. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
31. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
36. In bed.
37. Someone whose business is advertising.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
48. A light touch or stroke.
49. Beyond what is natural.
50. Towards the side away from the wind.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. An awkward stupid person.
5. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
6. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
7. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
8. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
9. A narrow way or road.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. The basic unit of money in Spain.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
30. A nation in northern North America.
32. Spread or daub over.
34. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
35. An iconic mental representation.
39. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
43. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
46. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
47. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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