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1. A person regarded as greedy and pig-like.
4. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
8. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
16. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
17. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
18. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
19. Lower in esteem.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
32. In bed.
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. A decree that prohibits something.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
44. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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1. Occupied or in the control of.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
6. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. By bad luck.
10. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
15. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
20. An employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar.
22. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. A light touch or stroke.
28. Relating to or located near a tibia.
31. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
32. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
33. Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season.
34. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
36. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. (Irish) The sea personified.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. A Russian river.
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