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1. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
12. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
16. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
19. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
20. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
21. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.
24. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
29. A light touch or stroke.
34. The eleventh month of the civil year.
37. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
38. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
40. A boy or man.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
45. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
46. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
47. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
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1. A short personal letter.
2. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
3. An unofficial association of people or groups.
4. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. Jordan's port.
8. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
9. A French abbot.
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
15. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
17. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
22. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
23. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
25. A trivial lie.
28. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
30. A genus of Indriidae.
31. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
32. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
35. English monk and scholar (672-735).
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. An informal term for a father.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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