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1. Take in solid food.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A period of time spent sleeping.
15. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
16. Informal terms for a mother.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A light touch or stroke.
20. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
24. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
31. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
33. An informal term for a father.
34. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
38. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
44. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
46. A tight-fitting headdress.
47. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
50. The cry made by sheep.
51. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
52. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
53. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
5. Advanced in years.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
21. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
23. A doctor's degree in religion.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
27. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
34. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
37. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
39. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
42. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
48. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
49. An associate degree in nursing.
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