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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. One thousandth of a second.
8. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
11. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
14. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
15. The last (12th) month of the year.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Before noon.
22. A toilet in England.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. United States financier (born in France) who helped finance the War of 1812 (1750-1831).
29. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
30. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
32. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
38. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. Used of a single unit or thing.
43. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
44. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
45. A doctor's degree in education.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. A woman of refinement.
5. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
6. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
7. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
8. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
16. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
18. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
19. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
21. A light touch or stroke.
23. An awkward stupid person.
25. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
27. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
32. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
33. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
34. Advanced in years.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. The sixth month of the civil year.
39. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. 10 grams.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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