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1. Using speech rather than writing.
5. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
8. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
11. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. A decree that prohibits something.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. Lower in esteem.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
30. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
31. An accountant certified by the state.
33. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
36. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
40. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
41. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
44. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
45. (informal) Of the highest quality.
46. In bed.
47. Step on it.
48. A boy or man.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
2. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The basic unit of money on Malta.
5. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
6. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
8. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
9. By bad luck.
10. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. Water frozen in the solid state.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
24. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
28. Having a bulb.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A genus of Ploceidae.
34. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. Characteristic of false pride.
39. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
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