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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
5. Enlarged prostate.
8. Call upon in supplication.
11. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
28. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. An informal term for a father.
46. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
47. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
49. The chance to speak.
50. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
51. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
3. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
4. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
5. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
6. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
7. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
8. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
9. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
16. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. An informal term for a father.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
26. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. A city in northern India.
36. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
37. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
38. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
43. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
44. A boy or man.
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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