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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
11. A police officer who investigates crimes.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
16. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. A Christian Bishop who translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic (311-382).
29. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
30. A genus of Ploceidae.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
45. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
47. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
49. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
50. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
51. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
5. Wool of the alpaca.
6. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
10. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
18. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
25. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
28. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
31. Cause to feel resentment or indignation.
33. Lower in esteem.
34. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
39. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
41. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
42. (British) The dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally).
43. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
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