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1. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. A city in east central Texas.
13. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
14. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
15. On or toward the lee.
16. The residue that remains when something is burned.
17. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
41. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
45. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
49. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
50. A light touch or stroke.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. (India) Usually in combination.
4. Distant in either space or time.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. Water frozen in the solid state.
7. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
8. (informal) Exceptionally good.
9. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
10. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
18. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. A Russian river.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. Of a pale to moderate grayish violet color n.
34. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
37. South African term for `boss'.
38. Not only so, but.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A master's degree in business.
43. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
44. A doctor's degree in education.
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