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1. A small nail.
5. The residue that remains when something is burned.
8. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
11. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
12. (informal) Of the highest quality.
13. A slight amount or degree of difference.
14. Before noon.
15. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
16. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
17. Related to or located at the back.
18. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. An associate degree in applied science.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
28. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
29. God of love and erotic desire.
33. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
34. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
38. Loose or flaccid body fat.
43. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Avatar of Vishnu.
3. The eleventh month of the civil year.
4. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
9. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
22. In bed.
23. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
25. Jordan's port.
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
30. Informal terms for a mother.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. Relating to or near the ulna.
36. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
37. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A sudden short attack.
41. The template for protein synthesis.
42. An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).
44. A state of southwestern India.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
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