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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
13. Take in solid food.
14. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
16. Make amends for.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
21. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
33. (informal) Exceptionally good.
35. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
37. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
38. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
49. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
51. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
52. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
54. The cry made by sheep.
55. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
56. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
57. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
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1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
5. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
6. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
7. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
8. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
9. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
10. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls.
18. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
20. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
22. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
23. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. A three-year law degree.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
36. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
40. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
41. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
42. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. The face of a timepiece.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
48. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
49. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
53. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
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