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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
5. The cry made by sheep.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. A Loloish language.
12. How long something has existed.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
15. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
18. One thousand grams.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
27. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
37. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A feeling of intense anger.
45. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
46. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
47. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
49. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
50. A period of time spent sleeping.
51. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
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1. Obvious and dull.
2. Jordan's port.
3. A bachelor's degree in theology.
4. A member of the Algonquian people living in Wisconsin the Fox River valley and the shores of Green Bay.
5. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
19. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
21. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
22. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
23. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
24. Type genus of the Anatidae.
26. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
32. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
33. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
34. An island of central Hawaii.
35. Lower in esteem.
36. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
38. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
39. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
41. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
48. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
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