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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. (superlative of `good') Having the most positive qualities.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
14. Obvious and dull.
16. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
17. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
27. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
29. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
32. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
35. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. A state in New England.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. The seventh and last day of the week.
46. Used of a single unit or thing.
47. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
48. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
49. A boy or man.
50. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
51. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
4. Any of various units of capacity.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
7. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
8. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. Avatar of Vishnu.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
23. 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.
25. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
28. The cry made by sheep.
30. (informal) Roused to anger.
31. Refuse to acknowledge.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.
36. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
37. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
42. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
43. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
44. A decree that prohibits something.
45. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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