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1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
11. The younger of two major political parties in the United States.
12. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
13. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
14. The month following March and preceding May.
15. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
16. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
17. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
19. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
21. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. A boy or man.
25. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
26. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
28. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A master's degree in business.
39. (South African) A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers).
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
42. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
45. A state in northwestern North America.
47. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
2. Cactus having yellow flowers and purple fruits.
3. A chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline.
4. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
8. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
10. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
18. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
20. Move away from a place into another direction.
22. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
29. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
31. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. Jordan's port.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. A small piece of cloth.
41. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
46. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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