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1. A branch of the Tai languages.
5. Half the width of an em.
7. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
12. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
13. Cuddling and kissing.
14. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
15. Before noon.
16. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
17. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Too numerous to be counted.
22. Jordan's port.
24. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
28. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
32. An associate degree in nursing.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
41. Obvious and dull.
43. The state of being under the control of another person.
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
45. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
47. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
48. An informal term for a father.
49. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
50. A light touch or stroke.
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1. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
2. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
3. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
7. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
8. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
9. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
10. Advanced in years.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. Not only so, but.
23. How long something has existed.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
30. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
31. Filled with fear or apprehension.
33. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
34. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
35. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor.
36. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
40. Divulge information or secrets.
42. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
47. (informal) Roused to anger.
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