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1. The cry made by sheep.
4. The part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
16. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. Least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol).
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. United States chemist (1839-1903).
26. The capital of Croatia.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. An informal term for a father.
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. A light touch or stroke.
34. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
42. Gone by.
45. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
46. The airforce of Great Britain.
47. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
48. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
4. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
5. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
6. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
7. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. 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.
19. A city of central China.
22. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
31. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. Of or relating to or involving an area.
35. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
43. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
44. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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