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1. In bed.
5. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
11. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
12. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
13. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
14. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
15. Noisy talk.
16. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
17. An accidental happening.
18. The first month of the year.
21. An informal term for a father.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
28. The location of something surrounded by other things.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
32. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
34. The act of scanning.
39. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
42. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
47. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
48. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
4. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
5. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
6. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
7. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. Fallow deer.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Wood of a sumac.
19. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
20. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
22. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
25. Being one more than one hundred.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
33. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
36. An elaborate song for solo voice.
37. Two items of the same kind.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A state in northwestern North America.
40. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
41. The sixth month of the civil year.
43. How long something has existed.
44. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
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