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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
5. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
12. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
13. (British) Informal term for information.
14. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
15. A doctor's degree in education.
16. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
17. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
18. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
21. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. A French abbot.
25. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
27. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
29. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
31. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
32. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
35. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
45. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
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1. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
2. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
3. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. The vein in the center of a leaf.
7. English monk and scholar (672-735).
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. The brother of your father or mother.
19. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
26. God of death.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
33. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. Not in action or at work.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
44. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
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