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1. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
4. In bed.
8. A decree that prohibits something.
11. Take in solid food.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
15. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
27. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
29. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
30. The capital of Croatia.
32. A state in northwestern North America.
33. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
34. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. (informal) Of the highest quality.
49. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
52. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
53. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
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1. Flat tableland with steep edges.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. Indicating the most important performer or role.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
6. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
21. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
23. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
25. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
45. Enlarged prostate.
46. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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