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1. A small island.
5. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
15. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
16. 10 grams.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
24. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
32. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
36. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
39. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
41. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
43. An associate degree in applied science.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
48. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
49. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
50. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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1. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. (Irish) The sea personified.
4. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
5. A light touch or stroke.
6. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
7. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
18. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
20. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
21. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
22. A deep bow.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
33. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
34. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
35. State in northeastern India.
37. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
38. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
39. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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