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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
8. Cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle.
11. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A light touch or stroke.
15. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
16. God of the earth.
17. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
19. Any plant of the genus Erica.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. The cry made by sheep.
28. Short and fat.
30. An associate degree in applied science.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. Extremely pleasing.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness.
45. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
46. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
49. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
50. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
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1. A genus of Ploceidae.
2. Jordan's port.
3. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
4. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
5. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
6. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
7. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
8. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
25. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. An honorary degree in science.
29. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
34. Largest known toad species.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
41. Enlarged prostate.
42. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
43. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
44. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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