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1. A French abbot.
5. A unit of pressure.
8. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
13. Being two more than fifty.
14. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
16. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
17. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
18. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
23. (computer science) A unit for measuring computing power.
24. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
29. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
30. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
32. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
36. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
38. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
39. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
44. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
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1. In bed.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
4. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
7. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
8. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
15. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.
21. A federally chartered savings bank.
22. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
27. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
28. A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains.
29. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
31. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
34. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
41. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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