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1. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
5. One thousand periods per second.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. On or toward the lee.
12. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
13. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
16. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
17. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
20. A decree that prohibits something.
22. An awkward stupid person.
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. Divulge information or secrets.
29. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
37. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
43. Take in solid food.
46. Used in combination to denote the middle.
47. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
49. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
50. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. A vigorous blow.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
8. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
9. Largest known toad species.
10. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
18. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
19. One thousand grams.
21. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
28. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. The friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC).
35. Any plant of the genus Erica.
36. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
38. Belonging to some prior time.
39. Produced by a manufacturing process.
40. Not only so, but.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. The bill in a restaurant.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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