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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. The sound made by a cow or bull.
7. Any of various small biting flies.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
13. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
14. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
15. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
33. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
35. A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge.
41. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
42. On the move.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
48. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
50. God of fire.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
4. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
7. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
8. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
19. A flexible container with a single opening.
22. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
23. Before noon.
24. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
26. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
27. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
28. A Russian river.
31. Having two horns or horn-shaped parts.
34. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
36. 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.
37. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
38. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. Not easy.
40. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. Fiddler crabs.
47. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
48. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
49. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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