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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
5. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
8. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
11. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
12. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
13. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
17. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
26. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
32. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
33. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
35. Before noon.
37. A sudden and violent collapse.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
48. An informal term for a father.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. An audiotape recording of sound.
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1. The event of something ending.
2. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
3. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
4. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
5. Consisting of or made of cedar.
6. An accountant certified by the state.
7. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. An informal term for a father.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Wood of a sumac.
18. 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.
19. A young woman making her debut into society.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
34. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
35. An accountant certified by the state.
36. God of death.
37. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. Common Indian weaverbird.
40. An informal conversation.
42. A slight amount or degree of difference.
44. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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