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1. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
11. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
12. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. Not only so, but.
15. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
19. Tag the base runner to get him out.
22. Belonging to some prior time.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
31. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
32. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
35. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
39. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. A light touch or stroke.
47. Extremely pleasing.
48. Chief port of Yemen.
49. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
4. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
9. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
21. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
23. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
24. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
26. A radioactive transuranic element.
27. The cry made by sheep.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Jordan's port.
36. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
37. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
41. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
42. A decree that prohibits something.
43. A rapid bustling commotion.
44. A master's degree in fine arts.
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