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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
12. A blind god.
13. The money risked on a gamble.
14. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
16. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. The act of scanning.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. Used at the dining table.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
31. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
36. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
41. A state in northwestern North America.
43. An elderly man.
45. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
50. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
51. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
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1. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
5. An argument opposed to a proposal.
6. Someone whose business is advertising.
7. (informal) Exceptionally good.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. A city in central New York.
18. State in northeastern India.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
23. Marked by a rhythmical cadence.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
38. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
39. A Russian river.
40. A small nail.
42. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. A long-playing phonograph record.
48. An associate degree in nursing.
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