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1. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
5. (informal) Roused to anger.
8. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. An enclosed space.
14. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
18. A son who has the same first name as his father.
19. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
35. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
36. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
41. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
47. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
50. A flexible container with a single opening.
51. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
6. How long something has existed.
7. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
8. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
9. The general activity of selling.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
22. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
24. A master's degree in education.
25. The cry made by sheep.
26. The site of an archeological exploration.
27. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
33. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
34. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
37. God of love and erotic desire.
38. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
39. In bed.
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. Being two more than fifty.
43. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
44. 10 grams.
48. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
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