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1. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
5. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
11. A genus of European owls.
12. How long something has existed.
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. South African term for `boss'.
15. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. The cry made by sheep.
17. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
19. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
20. God of love and erotic desire.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
32. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
35. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
43. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
44. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
50. A local computer network for communication between computers.
51. A small nail.
52. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
2. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
3. Showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness.
4. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
5. A light touch or stroke.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. The quantity contained in a keg.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. Leafless East Indian vine.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. Informal terms for a mother.
23. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A bachelor's degree in religion.
29. An insane person.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. Offering fun and gaiety.
38. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
39. A Hindu prince or king in India.
41. In bed.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
49. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
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