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1. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
15. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
16. Obvious and dull.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
24. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
26. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
30. By bad luck.
33. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
35. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
41. Informal terms for a mother.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
49. An awkward stupid person.
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. A woman religious.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
5. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
9. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
10. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
23. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
25. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
27. An informal term for a father.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. Speaking a Slavic language.
34. Jordan's port.
35. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
36. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
37. Offering fun and gaiety.
38. Characteristic of false pride.
39. An Eskimo hut.
40. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
43. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
45. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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