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1. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. (informal) Fortitude and determination.
11. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
13. A state in the western United States.
14. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
17. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
25. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
39. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
42. Derive or receive pleasure from.
43. A master's degree in business.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
46. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
3. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
8. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
9. The income arising from land or other property.
10. Establish the validity of something.
15. A small piece of cloth.
16. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. The cry made by sheep.
24. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
26. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. 1/10 gram.
30. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
31. A city in south central Mexico (southeast of Mexico City) on the edge of central Mexican plateau.
32. Time during which some action is awaited.
34. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
35. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
36. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
37. One thousandth of a second.
38. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
40. Fiddler crabs.
41. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
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