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1. An informal term for a father.
4. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. How long something has existed.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. Used of a single unit or thing.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
21. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
22. A deep bow.
26. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
30. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
31. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
33. God of love and erotic desire.
34. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
35. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
45. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
46. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
48. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
50. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
51. A light touch or stroke.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Advanced in years.
3. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
4. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
5. Highly excited.
6. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
7. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
8. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
20. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. Informal terms for a mother.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
28. Before noon.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. South African term for `boss'.
39. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
47. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
49. A soft silvery metallic element.
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