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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. The bill in a restaurant.
7. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
14. An affirmative.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. Filled with fear or apprehension.
23. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
24. A republic in northeastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
27. A state in northwestern North America.
29. Relating to or near the ulna.
31. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. How long something has existed.
34. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
40. The airforce of Great Britain.
44. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
45. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. God of death.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
8. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
9. At full speed.
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
18. Washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water.
20. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
21. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
22. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A strong emotion.
28. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
30. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
39. An informal term for a father.
41. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A flexible container with a single opening.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Before noon.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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