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1. An informal term for a father.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. In bed.
13. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
17. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. Jordan's port.
28. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
30. How long something has existed.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
45. A port in southwestern Scotland.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. In or of the month preceding the present one.
49. Type genus of the Anatidae.
50. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A light touch or stroke.
4. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
9. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
10. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
15. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
20. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
21. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
22. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
25. Unknown god.
26. The cry made by sheep.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. By bad luck.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
41. The products of human creativity.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
46. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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