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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Common Indian weaverbird.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
13. In bed.
14. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
15. A boy or man.
16. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
17. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
20. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
21. The cry made by sheep.
25. Someone who has won first place in a competition.
26. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
29. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
35. Tag the base runner to get him out.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
50. A decree that prohibits something.
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1. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
2. Soft creamy white cheese.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
7. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
10. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
18. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
19. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
22. South American cavy.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. A doctor's degree in religion.
33. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
34. A Russian river.
36. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
37. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. Very dark black.
41. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
42. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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