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1. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
5. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
11. Beside one another in a row or rank.
12. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
13. Willing to face danger.
14. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
16. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
17. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
20. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. Late time of life.
32. Lower in esteem.
34. A genus of Platalea.
37. A light touch or stroke.
38. 1 species.
42. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
43. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
47. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
48. Very dark black.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. A period of time spent sleeping.
51. Type genus of the Ranidae.
52. Tag the base runner to get him out.
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1. 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.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
4. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
5. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
8. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
9. Type genus of the Amiidae.
10. Located in or toward the back or rear.
15. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
18. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
19. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. A Mid-Atlantic state.
31. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
33. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
35. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
36. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
37. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. The longest division of geological time.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. The habitation of wild animals.
47. A state in midwestern United States.
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