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1. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. Hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot.
12. A humorous anecdote or remark.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
20. A master's degree in business.
22. A young woman making her debut into society.
23. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
25. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. The cry made by sheep.
32. Excessively fat.
35. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. The bill in a restaurant.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
52. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
2. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
3. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
4. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
5. Largest known toad species.
6. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A bachelor's degree in religion.
26. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
35. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A Hindu prince or king in India.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
47. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
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