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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
8. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
14. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
15. A fraudulent business scheme.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. United States abolitionist (1786-1865).
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. Of or related to a musical scale.
28. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
33. An associate degree in applied science.
36. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
38. Highly excited.
41. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
42. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
44. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
48. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. An informal term for a father.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
5. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
6. Singing jazz.
7. God of love and erotic desire.
8. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
10. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
18. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
20. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
21. A light touch or stroke.
22. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A republic in central Africa.
30. A motley assortment of things.
34. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
35. A large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel.
37. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
38. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
39. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
40. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
45. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. An informal term for a father.
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