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1. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
8. Inquire about.
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
17. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
18. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
19. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
23. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
26. Considerate and solicitous care.
27. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
28. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. The airforce of Great Britain.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
51. Chief port of Yemen.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
3. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
4. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. Knock unconscious or senseless.
15. A flexible container with a single opening.
20. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
21. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
29. A young woman making her debut into society.
32. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
33. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
34. Affect with wonder.
35. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
43. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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