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1. Uncastrated adult male sheep.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Either extremity of something that has length.
12. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. Any of various units of capacity.
15. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. 35th President of the United States.
32. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
35. A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
39. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
40. The Muskhogean language of the Choctaw people.
42. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
47. One ten thousandth of a centner.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. A bachelor's degree in religion.
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1. The fourth month of the civil year.
2. Remove a bar from (a door, for example).
3. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. Made afraid.
6. Baby bed with high sides.
7. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
20. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
31. An honorary arts degree.
33. A genus of Pyralidae.
34. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
37. 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.
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
39. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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