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1. A person active in party politics.
4. Extremely pleasing.
7. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
15. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
16. A strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide.
17. Inquire about.
18. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. True firs.
28. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
39. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
44. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
45. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
47. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
48. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
3. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
4. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. A state in New England.
8. The fatty flesh of eel.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A state in midwestern United States.
20. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
24. 1/1000 gram.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
30. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
31. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
33. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Channel into a new direction.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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