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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
11. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
12. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
13. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
14. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
15. A state in midwestern United States.
16. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
17. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
18. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
19. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
29. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
30. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
46. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
47. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
48. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
49. The residue that remains when something is burned.
50. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
51. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
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1. Elk or moose.
2. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
3. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
5. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
8. A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. Type genus of the Anatidae.
36. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
39. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
40. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
42. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
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