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1. A licensed medical practitioner.
4. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
8. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
11. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
12. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
13. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. Being one more than two.
16. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
17. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
20. A city in northern India.
22. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
23. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Being one more than fifty.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. A region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore.
42. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
44. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
45. Divulge information or secrets.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A flexible container with a single opening.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras.
4. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
5. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi.
6. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
7. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
8. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
9. Sour or bitter in taste.
10. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
18. Ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus.
19. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
21. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
29. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
31. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
32. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. God of love and erotic desire.
43. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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