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1. South African term for `boss'.
5. Tag the base runner to get him out.
8. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
11. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
14. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
18. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
20. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
21. A city in northwestern Syria.
22. An informal term for a father.
25. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
29. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
30. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. The cry made by sheep.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
47. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
49. The site of an archeological exploration.
50. The residue that remains when something is burned.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. Of or relating to or involving an area.
3. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
4. Conforming to truth.
5. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
6. How long something has existed.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. A radioactive transuranic element.
9. The sixth month of the civil year.
10. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
15. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
16. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. The month following March and preceding May.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. Fallow deer.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
37. A vigorous blow.
39. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
40. Anything that serves as an enticement.
41. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
43. An informal term for a father.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
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