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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
8. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
14. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
15. The bill in a restaurant.
16. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. A flexible container with a single opening.
22. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. God of wealth and love.
25. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
29. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
31. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
34. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
39. (Irish) The sea personified.
42. Framework for holding objects.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
45. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. An affirmative.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
7. A light touch or stroke.
8. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
21. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
23. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
28. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
30. A protective structure resembling a scale.
32. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
33. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
34. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A Loloish language.
40. God of the earth.
41. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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