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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. A person's brother or sister.
7. God of love and erotic desire.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. A town in north central Oklahoma.
14. An associate degree in applied science.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. The square of a body of any size of type.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
30. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
35. (informal) Of the highest quality.
37. A liquid preparation used on wet hair to it a tint.
39. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
42. Using speech rather than writing.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
46. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. An informal term for a father.
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1. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. American dwarf fan palms.
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. A small but appreciable amount.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. Before noon.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
34. Squash bugs.
36. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
38. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
41. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
43. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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