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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
11. The fatty flesh of eel.
12. A Russian river.
13. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
14. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
15. Marked by the reception of pay.
16. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. Foul with waste matter.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. Used of a single unit or thing.
33. Lower in esteem.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. An iconic mental representation.
43. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. A light touch or stroke.
50. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Flat tableland with steep edges.
2. Not only so, but.
3. Wool of the alpaca.
4. Any high mountain.
5. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
6. Black tropical American cuckoo.
7. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. Divulge information or secrets.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
22. The cry made by sheep.
23. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
28. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
31. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
37. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
38. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. A quantity of no importance.
41. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
45. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
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