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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. A light touch or stroke.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts.
14. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
16. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
22. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
36. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
39. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
41. A city in northwestern Syria.
42. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
45. Black tropical American cuckoo.
46. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
47. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
48. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
49. Informal terms for a meal.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
51. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. Avatar of Vishnu.
2. A group of countries in special alliance.
3. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
4. An informal term for a father.
5. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
10. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
15. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
19. Top part of an apron.
21. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
24. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
28. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
31. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
32. Very attentive or observant.
34. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
35. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
37. Type genus of the Apidae.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
45. Before noon.
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