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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. How long something has existed.
12. A cylindrical tower used for storing silage.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
25. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
28. A final climactic stage.
31. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
33. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
44. Jordan's port.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
52. In bed.
53. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. God of fire.
3. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
4. An institution that issues something (securities or publications or currency etc.).
5. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
8. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. The square of a body of any size of type.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
38. A Loloish language.
39. The habitation of wild animals.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. One million periods per second.
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