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1. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
4. A small nail.
8. A branch of the Tai languages.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. 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.
13. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
14. Humorously vulgar.
17. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
18. Make believe.
19. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
21. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
29. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
32. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. The content of cognition.
37. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
43. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
48. God of the underworld.
49. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
51. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
2. English essayist (1775-1834).
3. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
4. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
5. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
9. A special way of doing something.
10. A sign of something about to happen.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
23. A flexible container with a single opening.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. Of or like a cecum.
28. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
30. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
31. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
34. Type genus of the Gavidae.
35. Cause to be embarrassed.
38. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
41. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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