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1. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
13. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
14. A pauper who lives by begging.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. The cry made by sheep.
19. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
21. Baby bed with high sides.
22. Type genus of the Tupaia.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
30. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
33. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
44. Offering fun and gaiety.
45. How long something has existed.
46. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
47. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
49. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
50. A white trivalent metallic element.
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1. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
2. In bed.
3. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
6. A state in northwestern North America.
7. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
8. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
9. Fallow deer.
10. Type genus of the Anatidae.
15. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
20. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
23. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
24. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
25. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.
32. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. Channel into a new direction.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. A decree that prohibits something.
40. A light touch or stroke.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A doctor's degree in education.
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