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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
8. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
17. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
20. A flexible container with a single opening.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
23. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
25. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
30. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
48. A Loloish language.
49. Goddess of fate.
50. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
51. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
52. The cry made by sheep.
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1. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. 1/1000 gram.
7. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
8. Made of fir or pine.
9. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
15. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
16. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. Offering fun and gaiety.
24. Half the width of an em.
26. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
37. Extremely robust.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Material used to daub walls.
41. A city in northern India.
42. A quantity of no importance.
44. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
45. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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