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1. Of southern Europe.
4. God of love and erotic desire.
8. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle.
11. Fiddler crabs.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
16. God of the earth.
17. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
18. Any plant of the genus Erica.
20. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. Toward the mouth or oral region.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
41. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
42. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
45. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.
49. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
50. By bad luck.
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1. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
2. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
3. A genus of Ploceidae.
4. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
5. The products of human creativity.
6. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
7. A French abbot.
8. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
19. Dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain.
22. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. (trademark) An antacid.
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. Type genus of the Amiidae.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. The food served and eaten at one time.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
43. An awkward stupid person.
44. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
45. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
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