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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A small piece of cloth.
13. Offering fun and gaiety.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
17. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. Lower in esteem.
24. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
25. Ground snakes.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A French abbot.
30. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
32. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
36. The act of scanning.
39. A loss of will power.
41. An accidental happening.
44. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
45. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
46. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
47. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
48. How long something has existed.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
5. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. An informal term for a father.
9. By bad luck.
10. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
16. The cry made by sheep.
19. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
21. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
22. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
23. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
33. 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.
34. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
37. 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.
38. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
40. Divulge information or secrets.
42. An accountant certified by the state.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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