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1. In bed.
5. A light touch or stroke.
8. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
11. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
12. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
13. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
14. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. Noisy talk.
17. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. The act of scanning.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
40. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
41. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
45. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
46. The cry made by sheep.
48. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
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1. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
4. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
5. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
6. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
7. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
8. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
9. A small nail.
10. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. The face or front of a building.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
23. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
24. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. Jordan's port.
34. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
35. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
39. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
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