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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
8. An enclosed space.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
16. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
27. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
29. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
31. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
32. 10 grams.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
39. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. The airforce of Great Britain.
45. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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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 syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
5. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
6. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
7. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
10. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. A person forced to flee from home or country.
21. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
22. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
24. One thousand periods per second.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Unknown god.
41. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
42. A light touch or stroke.
43. Used of a single unit or thing.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. Before noon.
47. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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