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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. An enclosed space.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. A large wine bottle for liquor or wine.
16. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
19. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
24. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. (prefix) Coming before or being preliminary or preparatory.
27. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A state in New England.
31. Find repugnant.
34. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
42. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
44. A master's degree in business.
45. Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns.
46. A local computer network for communication between computers.
47. A light touch or stroke.
48. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
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1. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. Fallow deer.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. Largest known toad species.
10. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
17. Metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon.
18. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
20. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
21. The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose.
22. Obvious and dull.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
29. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
40. Infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium.
41. Misery resulting from affliction.
43. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
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