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1. The seventh and last day of the week.
4. In bed.
8. Fiddler crabs.
11. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. (informal) Roused to anger.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
18. 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.
20. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
22. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. An ordered reference standard.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
27. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
28. 35th President of the United States.
29. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
32. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
37. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
41. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
42. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
48. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
51. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
3. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
6. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
9. Long pod containing small beans and sweetish edible pulp.
10. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
15. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
31. A decree that prohibits something.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
36. A city in northern India.
37. An informal term for a father.
38. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
39. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
40. A French abbot.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
47. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
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