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1. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
11. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
12. Fiddler crabs.
13. Not only so, but.
14. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
15. 10 grams.
16. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
25. Make richer.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. That is to say.
33. The act of scanning.
36. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
40. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
43. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
44. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
45. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
47. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. A genus of Falconidae.
3. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
4. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
7. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
8. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
9. Type genus of the Majidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. The sound of an alarm (usually a bell).
19. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
22. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
23. A large fleet.
24. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
26. A radioactive transuranic element.
27. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
32. A popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies.
33. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
34. 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.
35. An elaborate song for solo voice.
37. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
41. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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