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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A short erect tail.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. A unit of pain intensity.
13. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
14. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
17. Any of various units of capacity.
18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
33. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
34. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. Having much flesh (especially fat).
51. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
52. By bad luck.
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1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
4. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
5. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
6. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
7. A state in north central United States.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
9. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
10. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
16. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. One thousand periods per second.
29. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. The food served and eaten at one time.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
43. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
44. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
45. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
46. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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