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1. A large number or amount.
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. A primeval personification of air and breath.
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
13. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
14. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
16. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
18. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A young horse.
23. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
24. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
25. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
35. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
36. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
41. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
42. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
46. Sudden sharp painful emotion.
48. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
49. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
50. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
52. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. A sign of something about to happen.
3. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
4. Make off with belongings of others.
5. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
6. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
10. Divulge information or secrets.
15. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
17. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
19. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
22. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A master's degree in business.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. A Hindu prince or king in India.
39. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
40. The sixth month of the civil year.
43. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. 10 grams.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
47. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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