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1. Little known Kamarupan languages.
5. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
8. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
11. Not widely known.
12. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
13. Long and light rowing boat.
14. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. The fatty flesh of eel.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
19. A radioactive transuranic element.
21. Before noon.
23. Type genus of the Amiidae.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
29. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
31. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
33. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
34. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. An associate degree in nursing.
38. Made of fir or pine.
43. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
46. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
48. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
49. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. Noisy talk.
54. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
55. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
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1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
4. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
5. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
6. Used of a single unit or thing.
7. Derived from or containing calcium or lime.
8. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
20. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
22. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
24. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
27. A state in New England.
28. An awkward stupid person.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
37. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
39. Suggestive of the supernatural.
40. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
41. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A light touch or stroke.
47. Tag the base runner to get him out.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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