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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. An informal term for a father.
8. A typical star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system.
11. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
12. The capital of Western Samoa.
13. One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread.
14. The basic unit of money in Iran.
16. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Of or belonging to an aecium.
21. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
23. A city in northern India.
24. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
25. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
27. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
29. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
30. Any of various units of capacity.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
37. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
41. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
44. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
45. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
47. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
48. The sign language used in the United States.
49. Noisy talk.
50. A metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters.
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. Jordan's port.
4. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. Small branch or division of a branch.
9. Relating to or near the ulna.
10. City in Sudan.
15. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
20. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
22. The residue that remains when something is burned.
26. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
28. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete.
33. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
34. The cry made by sheep.
36. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
38. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
39. Declare untrue.
40. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
43. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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