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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. 35th President of the United States.
11. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
15. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
16. A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments).
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
33. In bed.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
42. Fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth.
45. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
47. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
48. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
49. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
50. The cry made by sheep.
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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. Come into possession of.
5. Seed of a pea plant.
6. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
9. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
10. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
18. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
20. Covered with paving material.
21. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A light touch or stroke.
28. Somewhat strange.
31. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
32. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
34. Any plant of the genus Erica.
35. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
41. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
43. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
44. A person's brother or sister.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
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