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1. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
17. Large Indian antelope.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. Of or at or relating to an anode.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. The bill in a restaurant.
28. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. A resource.
34. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
36. Slightly open.
39. Tag the base runner to get him out.
40. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. A town in north central Oklahoma.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. A unit of length (in United States and Britain) equal to one twelfth of a foot.
48. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
49. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
50. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
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1. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
2. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
5. A state in midwestern United States.
6. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Largest known toad species.
15. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
18. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
19. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
20. Extremely pleasing.
23. An informal term for a father.
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
31. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
32. An established custom.
33. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
38. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
41. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
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