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1. God of the earth.
4. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
8. Fiddler crabs.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
13. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
14. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
15. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
24. In bed.
27. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
30. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
31. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. An informal term for a father.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
42. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A flexible container with a single opening.
48. The basic unit of money in Iran.
49. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
50. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. An associate degree in applied science.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. A thrusting blow with a knife.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
9. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. A light touch or stroke.
20. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
22. The bill in a restaurant.
25. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
36. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
40. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
43. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
47. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
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