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1. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
4. In bed.
8. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
11. Late time of life.
12. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
13. Being one more than forty.
14. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Offering fun and gaiety.
28. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
30. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
35. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
45. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
48. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. God of love and erotic desire.
51. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
6. Half the width of an em.
7. A doctor's degree in religion.
8. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
9. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
10. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. An informal term for a father.
18. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
19. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
27. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. Having a woven pattern.
31. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
33. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
36. 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. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A coffin along with its stand.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. A flexible container with a single opening.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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