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1. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
5. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
7. Material used to daub walls.
11. Highly excited.
12. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
13. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
14. Tag the base runner to get him out.
17. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
18. The month following March and preceding May.
19. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
25. Muscular and heavily built.
27. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
29. A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
32. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A state in southeastern United States.
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
44. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
48. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
49. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
53. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Obvious and dull.
2. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
3. Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood.
4. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
5. Made afraid.
6. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
7. 1/10 gram.
8. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
9. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
10. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
15. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
16. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
21. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
24. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
36. Wearing or provided with clothing.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
47. An informal term for a father.
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