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1. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
5. A flexible container with a single opening.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
12. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. Highly excited.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. 35th President of the United States.
26. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
28. Marked by the reception of pay.
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
36. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
37. A rapid bustling commotion.
38. A French abbot.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
43. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
44. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
45. The residue that remains when something is burned.
46. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
47. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
48. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.
4. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. By bad luck.
18. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
19. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
24. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
27. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
30. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
31. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
32. Lower in esteem.
33. Russian country house.
35. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
39. The cry made by sheep.
40. A container.
41. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
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