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1. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
12. A French abbot.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
15. Related to or located at the back.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
30. (informal) Exceptionally good.
32. An accountant certified by the state.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
41. (Irish) The sea personified.
43. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
46. The month following February and preceding April.
47. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
48. In bed.
49. A city in the European part of Russia.
50. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. In the Roman calendar.
2. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
3. Jordan's port.
4. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
5. Make less active or intense.
6. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. The basic unit of money in Albania.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
19. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
22. Informal terms for a mother.
23. Being ten more than one hundred fifty.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
33. A genus of Ploceidae.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
38. An Asian river between China and Russia.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Toward the mouth or oral region.
42. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
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