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1. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. Characteristic of a mob.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. Being one more than two.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
14. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
17. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
20. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
22. A deep bow.
28. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
29. The content of cognition.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
42. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
45. (informal) Roused to anger.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. A Loloish language.
2. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
3. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
4. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
8. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
9. Largest known toad species.
10. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
18. Inability to walk.
19. One thousand grams.
21. Type genus of the Amiidae.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
24. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A white trivalent metallic element.
32. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
33. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
37. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
41. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. A flexible container with a single opening.
44. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
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