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1. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
4. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
7. God of love and erotic desire.
11. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. In bed.
14. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
15. Noisy talk.
16. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
18. A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia.
19. In operation or operational.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Free from liquid or moisture.
32. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A person active in party politics.
40. The cry made by sheep.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
45. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
48. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. A city in north central Morocco.
51. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
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1. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
2. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
3. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
4. A frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry.
5. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
6. A town in south central Washington.
7. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. A written proposal or reminder.
10. Chief port of Yemen.
21. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
22. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
23. Common Indian weaverbird.
24. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. A Mid-Atlantic state.
27. (trademark) An antacid.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
33. (electronics) Designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
37. Any competition.
38. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
45. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
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