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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. An informal term for a father.
11. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
12. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. United States abolitionist (1786-1865).
17. The residue that remains when something is burned.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
30. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
33. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A boy or man.
47. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
48. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
49. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
50. Take in solid food.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. Affected manners intended to impress others.
3. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
4. A bachelor's degree in religion.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
16. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
19. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
22. The cry made by sheep.
23. The month following March and preceding May.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. Being one more than one hundred.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
29. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
38. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
39. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
40. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
41. Fallow deer.
42. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
44. An honorary degree in science.
45. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
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