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1. A rapid bustling commotion.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
12. A city in northern India.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
15. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
28. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
31. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
36. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. Type genus of the Anatidae.
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1. Squash bugs.
2. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
3. A sign of something about to happen.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
7. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
19. State in northeastern India.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. A state in northwestern North America.
30. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
33. The month following July and preceding September.
35. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
37. Very dark black.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Common Indian weaverbird.
40. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
43. A decree that prohibits something.
44. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
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