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1. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
5. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. A period of time spent sleeping.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. The content of cognition.
30. An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord.
33. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
36. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
37. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
45. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
46. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
47. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
48. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
5. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
6. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
7. An accountant certified by the state.
8. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. A state in midwestern United States.
21. A quantity of no importance.
24. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
25. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
26. (biology) Covered with hairs especially fine soft ones.
27. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
29. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
31. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
32. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
35. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
40. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
41. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
44. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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