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1. A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder.
5. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
7. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
11. A state in the western United States.
12. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
13. Toward the mouth or oral region.
14. Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.
15. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
19. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
21. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
22. Top part of an apron.
23. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
29. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
33. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
48. Being one more than two.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
51. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. (of upper front teeth) Projecting outward.
2. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
3. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. Loud confused noise from many sources.
7. Perennial plants resembling yucca.
8. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root.
9. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
17. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
20. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
24. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
27. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
28. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
31. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
32. A Russian river.
34. A slender double-reed instrument.
35. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
36. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
37. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. Being two more than fifty.
43. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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