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1. Cut off from a whole.
4. A large number or amount.
8. A person active in party politics.
11. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. A Russian river.
16. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
17. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
19. New Zealand conifer.
21. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
23. Avatar of Vishnu.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
28. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. Informal terms for a mother.
40. An awkward stupid person.
42. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
46. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
49. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
51. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
4. United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931).
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. The habitation of wild animals.
7. A fraudulent business scheme.
8. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. An ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor.
18. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
20. A large fleet.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
26. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
33. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
34. Common Indian weaverbird.
35. A local computer network for communication between computers.
36. Divulge information or secrets.
37. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
38. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
39. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
41. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
45. Before noon.
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