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1. Divulge information or secrets.
5. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
7. In bed.
11. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
12. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
13. An informal term for a father.
14. Wearing or provided with clothing.
15. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
16. A blind god.
17. A bottle with a stopper.
20. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
25. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
28. The second largest city in Tunisia.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. A long-playing phonograph record.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
44. A fraudulent business scheme.
46. How long something has existed.
47. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
48. 10 grams.
49. The habitation of wild animals.
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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. Of a pale purple color.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. English monk and scholar (672-735).
5. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
10. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
18. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
24. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
26. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
29. Abnormal dryness of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eyes.
32. A decree that prohibits something.
34. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
35. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
36. Filled with a great quantity.
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. 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.
42. A small piece of cloth.
43. The cry made by sheep.
45. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
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