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1. A French abbot.
5. 1/10 gram.
7. Toward the mouth or oral region.
11. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
12. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
13. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
14. Type genus of the Anatidae.
15. Informal terms for a mother.
16. The sixth month of the civil year.
17. A periodic paperback publication.
18. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. By bad luck.
25. The act of using.
27. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
41. Offering fun and gaiety.
44. Fiddler crabs.
45. A city in the European part of Russia.
47. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
48. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
49. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
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1. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
2. Obvious and dull.
3. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
4. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
5. Fallow deer.
6. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
8. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
9. Jordan's port.
10. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
19. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
22. Wood of a sumac.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
28. Of or belonging to an aecium.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. Enthusiastic approval.
33. The cry made by sheep.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
36. Largest known toad species.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
42. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
43. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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