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1. An informal conversation.
5. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. Not only so, but.
12. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
13. How long something has existed.
14. Female equine animal.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
18. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
21. Informal terms for a mother.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. Unknown god.
28. Lower in esteem.
32. The cry made by sheep.
33. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. French novelist.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
48. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
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1. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
2. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
3. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
5. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. Make anew.
8. An informal term for a father.
9. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
20. Tag the base runner to get him out.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
30. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
31. A selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade name Prozac).
35. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
38. Offering fun and gaiety.
39. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
41. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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