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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
8. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. An elaborate song for solo voice.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
16. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
34. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
35. The cry made by sheep.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
38. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
41. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. A humorous anecdote or remark.
47. A periodic paperback publication.
48. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
49. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
51. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
52. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
53. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
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1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
4. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
5. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
6. Humorously vulgar.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
9. Secured or held in place by tape.
10. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
18. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
20. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
23. Lower in esteem.
24. An associate degree in applied science.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. A motley assortment of things.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
37. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
43. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
45. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
50. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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