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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. In bed.
8. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
11. Towards the side away from the wind.
12. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
13. British informal term.
14. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
16. Any plant of the genus Erica.
18. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
20. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
21. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
23. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
26. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
32. A light touch or stroke.
33. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
50. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. The cry made by sheep.
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1. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
2. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
3. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
8. Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17).
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
15. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
17. Having been read.
19. Affect with wonder.
22. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. A local computer network for communication between computers.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
41. Largest known toad species.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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