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1. Acid gritty-textured fruit.
5. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
8. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
11. A ball of yarn or cord or thread.
12. A strong emotion.
13. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
18. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A native of ancient Troy.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. A port city in southwestern Iran.
30. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. 1/10 gram.
36. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
39. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
43. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
50. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
51. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. Having been read.
4. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
5. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
10. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
15. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
17. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
19. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
23. In bed.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. A telegram sent abroad.
37. Toward the mouth or oral region.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
41. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
42. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
44. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. Informal terms for a mother.
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