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1. Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
4. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
8. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
15. Before noon.
16. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
24. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
27. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
28. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. Island in West Indies.
38. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
43. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
44. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
45. The template for protein synthesis.
46. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
47. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. An affirmative.
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1. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
8. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
18. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
21. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A doctor's degree in optometry.
26. The cry made by sheep.
29. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
31. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
32. Tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood.
33. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.).
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. A slender double-reed instrument.
37. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
41. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
42. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
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