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1. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
4. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
7. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
11. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. The capital of Western Samoa.
14. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
15. (informal) Exceptionally good.
17. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
18. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
20. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
23. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
27. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
46. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
48. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. English essayist (1775-1834).
3. One thousandth of a second.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
8. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
9. Tropical Asian starlings.
10. With no effort to conceal.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
19. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
21. Not only so, but.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
35. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
36. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
38. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
39. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
43. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
44. An awkward stupid person.
47. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
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