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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
15. A small piece of cloth.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
30. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
32. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
41. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
51. Tag the base runner to get him out.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A light touch or stroke.
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925).
8. A human limb.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
22. French novelist.
24. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
37. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
43. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
44. The habitation of wild animals.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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