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1. Closely confined.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
7. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
11. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
12. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
13. A cosmetic preparation used by women in Egypt and Arabia to darken the edges of their eyelids.
14. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
15. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
17. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
19. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
20. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. Lower in esteem.
28. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
30. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. A state in southeastern United States.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
45. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
46. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
48. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
50. Taken or to be taken at random.
51. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
52. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. A genus of Ploceidae.
2. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
3. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
4. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
9. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
10. Of or relating to alga.
16. An informal term for a father.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. In bed.
24. Extremely pleasing.
26. A mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high).
27. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
29. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
34. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A city in northern India.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A light touch or stroke.
44. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
47. A soft silvery metallic element.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. Informal terms for a mother.
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