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1. Spanish cubist painter (1887-1927).
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. (informal) Roused to anger.
11. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
12. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
16. State in northeastern India.
18. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
20. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
21. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
23. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
26. Lower in esteem.
30. Any of various units of capacity.
31. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
33. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
40. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
43. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
44. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
46. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall.
2. Type genus of the Ranidae.
3. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
4. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
15. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A white trivalent metallic element.
29. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
32. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
34. An informal term for a father.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
39. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. A light touch or stroke.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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