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1. British informal term.
4. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
8. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
11. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
12. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
13. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
14. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
15. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
29. An informal term for a father.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
34. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. Of southern Europe.
52. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
4. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Not only so, but.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
9. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
10. Slightly open.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
19. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
20. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
22. An associate degree in applied science.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
33. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
36. An expression of greeting.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Jordan's port.
40. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
42. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
43. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
44. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
45. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
49. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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