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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. An enclosed space.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. Shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive.
16. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
17. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
28. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
31. (informal) Of the highest quality.
33. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
37. An informal term for a father.
39. Of or relating to or supporting Islamism.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
44. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
45. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
49. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
6. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
7. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. Little known Kamarupan languages.
10. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
18. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
19. The cry made by sheep.
21. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
24. In bed.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
29. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
30. Small genus of Eurasian herbs.
32. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
33. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
38. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. One million periods per second.
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