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1. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
5. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
8. (Irish) The sea personified.
11. A shade of blue tinged with green.
12. A human limb.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
15. Any of various units of capacity.
16. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A resource.
21. Informal terms for a mother.
22. Cause to be embarrassed.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. Being one more than nine.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Wood of a sumac.
30. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
31. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
32. Not only so, but.
34. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
40. Being one more than forty.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
46. A vertical spar for supporting sails.
47. (informal) Roused to anger.
48. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
49. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
50. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
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1. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
2. Short and fat.
3. Father of the storm gods Marut.
4. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
5. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
6. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
7. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
8. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
9. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
10. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
18. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
20. A light touch or stroke.
23. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
25. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
29. Too numerous to be counted.
33. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
34. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
35. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. By bad luck.
38. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
39. The specified day of the month.
41. A doctor's degree in education.
42. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
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