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1. A French abbot.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
8. A resource.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
13. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
14. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
15. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
16. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
23. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
26. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
27. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
29. A New England state.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists.
33. An associate degree in nursing.
35. The 4th planet from the sun.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. Type genus of the Phocidae.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. In bed.
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
4. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. Wool of the alpaca.
7. The habitation of wild animals.
8. Consider or hold as true.
9. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
10. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
18. A vigorous blow.
19. Any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudo-bulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers.
20. Leave a camp.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
25. A light touch or stroke.
28. The first light of day.
34. A quantity of no importance.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. Half the width of an em.
39. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
40. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
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