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1. Fiddler crabs.
4. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
8. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
11. Strike suddenly and with force.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
14. A container.
15. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
16. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
17. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. United States space station.
21. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
23. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
27. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
29. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
39. An informal term for a father.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
49. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
50. English monk and scholar (672-735).
51. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
2. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
3. Transient cessation of respiration.
4. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
5. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
6. A town in central Belgium.
7. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
8. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency.
9. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
10. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Not only so, but.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A state in northwestern North America.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
35. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
36. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
38. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. The cry made by sheep.
43. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
44. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
47. A Russian river.
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