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1. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. Not reflecting light.
11. An Eskimo hut.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
17. Before noon.
18. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
29. A radioactive transuranic element.
30. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
31. Any of various small biting flies.
33. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. Related to or located at the back.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
46. (nontechnical usage) A tiny piece of anything.
48. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
49. A light touch or stroke.
50. Type genus of the Anatidae.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Used in combination.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
20. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. A flexible container with a single opening.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. Common Indian weaverbird.
28. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
32. The bill in a restaurant.
34. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (20,997 feet high).
35. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
36. Jordan's port.
38. Very dark black.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A master's degree in business.
47. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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