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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
8. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. A slight amount or degree of difference.
15. Water frozen in the solid state.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
21. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
23. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
27. A proportion multiplied by 100.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
44. (British) Your grandmother.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. A French abbot.
47. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
48. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
50. A source of oil.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Divulge information or secrets.
3. A boy or man.
4. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
5. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
6. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation.
9. Not only so, but.
10. The highest level or degree attainable.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. One million periods per second.
25. The cry made by sheep.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
30. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
33. (with `in') Guardianship over.
34. 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.
35. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
41. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. A periodic paperback publication.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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