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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
8. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
11. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. A flexible container with a single opening.
19. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
20. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
21. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
22. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
29. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. Jordan's port.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
43. Wild and domestic cattle.
45. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
46. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
48. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
4. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
5. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
8. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
9. Complacently or inanely foolish.
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
23. The cry made by sheep.
24. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
25. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
30. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
31. Lower in esteem.
32. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Type genus of the Nepidae.
37. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
39. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
44. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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