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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
8. A periodic paperback publication.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. A Loloish language.
13. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
14. The capital of the state of Kansas.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
18. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. A bachelor's degree in theology.
29. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
32. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
44. (informal) Roused to anger.
45. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. 10 grams.
50. A human female who does housework.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An indistinct shapeless form.
3. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
4. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. Jordan's port.
6. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. A master's degree in fine arts.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. Offering fun and gaiety.
15. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
16. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. A decree that prohibits something.
25. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
33. Of or relating to or involving an area.
34. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
36. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
37. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. The sixth month of the civil year.
41. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
42. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
47. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
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