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1. An argument opposed to a proposal.
4. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
8. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
17. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
18. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
20. Australian clover fern.
22. A stock or supply of foods.
25. An associate degree in applied science.
26. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
28. Offering little or no hope.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
41. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
42. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
45. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
48. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
49. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. 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.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. A desert in southern Israel.
4. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
5. A city in northwestern Turkey.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
8. A public promotion of some product or service.
9. A genus of Ploceidae.
10. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
16. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
21. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
23. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
24. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
32. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
35. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
36. A wound resulting from biting.
37. Two items of the same kind.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
43. A master's degree in business.
44. The money risked on a gamble.
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