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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. The cry made by sheep.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
13. 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).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A young woman making her debut into society.
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
20. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
22. 10 grams.
23. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
24. An associate degree in applied science.
25. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
27. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
29. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
31. English monk and scholar (672-735).
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. Being one more than two.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
46. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
47. Of southern Europe.
48. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).
4. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
5. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
6. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
7. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
8. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
9. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
10. A French abbot.
18. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
19. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
21. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
26. A Russian river.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. True firs.
32. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
33. Of or relating to or involving an area.
36. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
37. Any competition.
38. A Russian river.
40. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
42. Extremely pleasing.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A state in northwestern North America.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
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