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1. A French abbot.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
7. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
11. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
12. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
13. A boy or man.
14. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
17. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
18. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
19. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
30. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
31. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
34. Before noon.
40. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
43. A long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume.
44. Seed vessel having hooks or prickles.
45. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
47. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
48. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
49. In bed.
50. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
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1. An Asian river between China and Russia.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. South African term for `boss'.
4. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
9. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
10. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
15. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
16. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
32. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
33. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
37. The template for protein synthesis.
38. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
39. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
41. A byproduct of inflammation.
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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