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1. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
11. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
12. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
13. Towards the side away from the wind.
14. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
15. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
17. A bachelor's degree in religion.
18. A radioactive transuranic element.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. One of the common people.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
30. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
33. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
34. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
37. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
47. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
48. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. Not only so, but.
51. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
3. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
7. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
10. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
16. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
31. A state in midwestern United States.
32. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
35. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
36. Lower in esteem.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
43. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.
44. Step on it.
45. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
46. Unknown god.
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