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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
13. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
14. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
19. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
21. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
22. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
28. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
34. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
49. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
50. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. A republic on the west coast of Africa.
3. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
4. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
5. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
6. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Squash bugs.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
26. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
27. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
30. Informal terms for a mother.
31. Capital and largest city of Colombia.
32. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
40. A doctor's degree in education.
41. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
42. An associate degree in applied science.
43. Enlarged prostate.
44. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
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