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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A doctor's degree in education.
11. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
12. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
14. The basic unit of money in Iran.
16. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Nalfon) used in the treatment of arthritis and other painful inflammatory disorders.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
20. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
24. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
33. An expression of greeting.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
45. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
48. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
49. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
50. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. Jordan's port.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
9. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
10. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
15. Immature of its kind.
17. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
21. Jordan's port.
22. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
23. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
26. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
27. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. A motley assortment of things.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
36. Possessing material wealth.
38. God of love and erotic desire.
39. In bed.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
42. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
46. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
47. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
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