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1. Top part of an apron.
4. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. The bill in a restaurant.
15. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. Jordan's port.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
24. A city in east central Texas.
27. The cry made by sheep.
30. Jordan's port.
32. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
33. A light touch or stroke.
34. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
35. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
36. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
42. Towards the side away from the wind.
44. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
47. A French abbot.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
53. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
6. Being six more than fifty.
7. A yearning for something or to do something.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. By bad luck.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A Russian river.
22. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
23. English monk and scholar (672-735).
25. A state in northwestern North America.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. Common Indian weaverbird.
43. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
45. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
46. A branch of the Tai languages.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. Before noon.
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