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1. Employed in accomplishing something.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
13. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
14. A flexible container with a single opening.
15. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
17. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
19. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. Before noon.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
32. A bachelor's degree in religion.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
46. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
47. A desert in central Asia.
48. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
50. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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1. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
2. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
3. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
4. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
5. (informal) Exceptionally good.
6. An associate degree in applied science.
7. A doctor's degree in religion.
8. A large fleet.
9. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
10. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
23. The square of a body of any size of type.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Extremely pleasing.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. Largest known toad species.
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
41. The sixth month of the civil year.
43. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
44. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
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