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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. The bill in a restaurant.
15. The sixth month of the civil year.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. State in northeastern India.
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
22. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
23. A member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
29. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
36. Tag the base runner to get him out.
39. A decree that prohibits something.
41. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
43. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. Extremely pleasing.
48. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
49. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
50. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Divulge information or secrets.
3. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. By bad luck.
9. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
18. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
30. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
34. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
35. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
37. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. (British slang) Cafe.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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