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1. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
4. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
8. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
11. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
12. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
13. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
14. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
16. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
18. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
19. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
21. A state in northwestern North America.
22. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
24. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
25. Jordan's port.
30. The last (12th) month of the year.
31. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
34. An associate degree in applied science.
36. In addition.
42. (usually plural) The state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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1. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
2. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate.
3. Italian histologist noted for work on the structure of the nervous system and for his discovery of Golgi bodies (1844-1926).
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. Loose or flaccid body fat.
6. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
8. Any of various units of capacity.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
10. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. Divulge information or secrets.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
33. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
40. Common Indian weaverbird.
41. South African term for `boss'.
43. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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