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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
8. The sign language used in the United States.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. An affirmative.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
24. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
26. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
35. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
38. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
45. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
46. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
47. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
48. Take in solid food.
49. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
50. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
10. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
18. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
20. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
22. An informal term for a father.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. Informal terms for a mother.
27. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
30. A city of southeastern Mexico.
31. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
32. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
33. Unknown god.
34. A lake in northwestern Russia.
36. Fallow deer.
37. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
43. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
44. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
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