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1. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
5. A light touch or stroke.
8. The unit of frequency.
11. Made of fir or pine.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
13. Any high mountain.
14. An informal term for a father.
16. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. A son who has the same first name as his father.
19. Informal terms for a mother.
20. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
22. 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.
24. A fraudulent business scheme.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. A resource.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
38. Lower in esteem.
42. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. Speaking a Slavic language.
46. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
47. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
48. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
49. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
50. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California.
52. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
3. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
4. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
5. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
8. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
9. Exactly vertical.
10. A chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline.
15. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
21. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Type genus of the Gavidae.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
36. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
37. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
38. A state in northwestern North America.
39. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
40. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
41. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
44. The basic unit of money in Romania.
45. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
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