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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. The residue that remains when something is burned.
11. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
12. The fatty flesh of eel.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
15. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
19. The face or front of a building.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. 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.
29. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
32. The cry made by sheep.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
44. Framework for holding objects.
47. An accountant certified by the state.
48. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. God of love and erotic desire.
52. Tag the base runner to get him out.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
4. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
5. The month following January and preceding March.
6. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
7. Wool of the alpaca.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
18. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
20. Of or relating to the wrist.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. A light touch or stroke.
26. 10 grams.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
33. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
34. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
38. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
39. A Loloish language.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
45. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
46. The habitation of wild animals.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
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