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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
12. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
13. Take in solid food.
14. The basic unit of money in Iran.
16. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
20. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
28. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
31. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. Gone by.
49. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
50. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
51. A light touch or stroke.
52. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
53. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
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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 hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
5. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. A notable achievement.
9. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
24. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Before noon.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
32. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
37. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
39. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
44. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
45. Enlarged prostate.
46. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. A Russian river.
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