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1. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. With no effort to conceal.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
16. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
17. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
18. annoy continually or chronically.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
23. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
25. Lower in esteem.
27. Belonging to some prior time.
31. Relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language n.
33. (informal) Of the highest quality.
34. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
41. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
42. A genus of Mustelidae.
45. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
48. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
2. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
3. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
4. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
19. A fraudulent business scheme.
20. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
21. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
24. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
29. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
30. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
32. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
35. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
36. A Loloish language.
37. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. Common Indian weaverbird.
40. A small nail.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
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