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1. The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves).
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
14. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
15. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
21. Sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia.
23. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
24. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
30. A Loloish language.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
42. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. (informal) Roused to anger.
46. In bed.
48. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
51. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. Any of various units of capacity.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
9. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
16. 10 grams.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
22. A city in the European part of Russia.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
35. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
38. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
39. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
40. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. God of the earth.
47. An uproarious party.
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