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1. How long something has existed.
4. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
8. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
11. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
14. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
16. 36th President of the United States.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
19. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
27. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
29. Before noon.
32. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. 16 ounces.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
49. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
50. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
51. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
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1. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
2. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
3. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
6. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
7. A Hindu prince or king in India.
8. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
9. The act of rising upward into the air.
10. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
15. A state in New England.
20. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
22. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. Belonging to some prior time.
28. The eleventh month of the civil year.
30. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
31. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
35. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
36. A telegram sent abroad.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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