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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
15. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
16. A flexible container with a single opening.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. Lower in esteem.
22. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
25. A city in southern Finland.
27. The capital of Croatia.
29. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
33. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
40. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
45. A master's degree in fine arts.
47. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
48. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
49. Having leadership guidance.
50. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
51. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
4. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
5. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
6. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. By bad luck.
10. Especially one side of a leaf.
18. Wool of the alpaca.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
23. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
24. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
26. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
34. Jordan's port.
35. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
37. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
38. 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.
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. Call upon in supplication.
42. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
43. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
44. Former measure of the US economy.
45. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
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