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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
7. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. The cry made by sheep.
29. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
30. Divulge information or secrets.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. 10 grams.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
40. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
51. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
4. A light touch or stroke.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. The quantity contained in a keg.
7. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
9. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
10. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
19. A blow that renders the opponent unconscious.
21. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
22. An associate degree in applied science.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
37. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Earlier a god.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A shape that sags.
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