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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. In bed.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. (informal) Of the highest quality.
14. Type genus of the Majidae.
16. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
17. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
24. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
26. A Russian river.
27. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
31. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
34. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
35. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
37. A state in northwestern North America.
38. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
42. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
46. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
48. Any of various units of capacity.
49. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. An associate degree in applied science.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
54. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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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. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
6. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
7. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. English monk and scholar (672-735).
15. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
20. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
22. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
28. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
29. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
33. The capital and largest city of Zambia.
36. Jordan's port.
39. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
40. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
41. Divulge information or secrets.
43. A master's degree in library science.
44. A state of southwestern India.
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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