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1. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. Late time of life.
11. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
12. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
13. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
16. Not widely known.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
21. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
23. Minor or subordinate.
24. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
27. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
28. A resource.
29. Being three more than ninety.
32. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
35. Noisy quarrel.
39. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
45. A humorous anecdote or remark.
46. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
48. In bed.
49. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
50. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
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1. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
2. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. 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.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Of or relating to herbs.
8. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
9. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
15. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
17. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
20. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
22. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
25. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
26. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
30. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
31. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
33. Affect with wonder.
34. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
36. Avatar of Vishnu.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. Largest known toad species.
43. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
44. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
47. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
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