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1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
24. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
27. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
30. Jordan's port.
32. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
34. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
40. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
45. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
4. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
5. South American shrub having edible greenish plumlike fruit.
6. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
7. Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.
8. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
9. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
23. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
25. A state in northwestern North America.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
35. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. South African term for `boss'.
41. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
45. An informal term for a father.
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