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1. A French abbot.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
11. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
12. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
13. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
14. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
22. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
23. Food for domestic livestock.
24. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
26. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
33. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
34. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
39. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope.
40. Any small branched yellow-flowered North American herb of the genus Krigia.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
45. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
46. Of southern Europe.
47. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
48. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
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1. The capital of Western Samoa.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. The cry made by sheep.
4. The square of a body of any size of type.
5. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
9. A crime syndicate in the United States.
10. A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence.
15. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
18. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
28. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
32. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
33. The square of a body of any size of type.
35. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
38. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
41. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
43. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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