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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
8. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
16. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
26. A light touch or stroke.
28. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. The cry made by sheep.
39. A small island.
41. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
45. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
48. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
49. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
50. A large indefinite number.
53. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
57. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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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. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
5. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
9. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. A master's degree in fine arts.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. Divulge information or secrets.
37. All the plant life in a particular region.
38. (Irish) The sea personified.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
43. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
52. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
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