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1. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
4. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
8. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
11. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
12. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
13. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
14. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
15. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
20. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
22. The act of scanning.
24. Minor or subordinate.
25. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
37. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
38. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
41. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
43. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
44. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
45. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
48. A light touch or stroke.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. A state in midwestern United States.
4. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
5. One or some or every or all without specification.
6. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
9. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
10. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
18. The residue that remains when something is burned.
19. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
21. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
23. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
31. A large fleet.
32. All the animal life in a particular region.
33. A cgs unit of work or energy.
36. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
46. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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