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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
8. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
13. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
14. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
15. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
16. A colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
17. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
19. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
22. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
29. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
31. Informal terms for a mother.
32. An associate degree in nursing.
33. In bed.
36. Any high mountain.
39. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
42. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
45. Black tropical American cuckoo.
48. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
5. Half the width of an em.
6. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
8. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
18. A deep bow.
20. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
21. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
23. A large fleet.
25. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
27. A light touch or stroke.
30. Not subjected to an aging process.
34. Remove from memory or existence.
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
37. A Russian river.
38. Marked by the reception of pay.
43. Fiddler crabs.
44. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
45. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
46. A doctor's degree in optometry.
47. An informal term for a father.
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