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1. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
4. Highly excited.
8. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
15. In bed.
16. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
17. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. An oil port in southern Iraq.
24. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
28. A bachelor's degree in religion.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
34. Before noon.
35. The act of scanning.
38. A small vessel for travel on water.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. A French abbot.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
51. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
52. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. The capital of Western Samoa.
3. (India) Usually in combination.
4. Type genus of the Anatidae.
5. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
8. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
9. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
10. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
18. A port city in southwestern Iran.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
33. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
36. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
40. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
42. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
43. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
44. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
47. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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