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1. United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829).
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. God of love and erotic desire.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. A homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned.
14. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
15. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
16. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
21. Obvious and dull.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. Turn pale, as if in fear.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. The cry made by sheep.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
40. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
41. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
44. Step on it.
45. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
49. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
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1. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
5. (informal) Exceptionally good.
6. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
7. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
10. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
19. Young of domestic cattle.
22. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
26. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
33. (botany) Especially of leaves.
34. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
35. Characteristic of false pride.
36. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
37. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. The airforce of Great Britain.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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