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1. A narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework.
5. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
8. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
11. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
12. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
13. Used of a single unit or thing.
14. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
17. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
19. Lower in esteem.
21. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
22. An island of central Hawaii.
23. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. An uproarious party.
27. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Before noon.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. A small vessel for travel on water.
39. A light touch or stroke.
41. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
43. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
44. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
45. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. A master's degree in education.
48. The sixth month of the civil year.
49. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
4. Any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers.
5. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Humorously vulgar.
8. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
9. Squash bugs.
10. A populous province in northeastern China.
18. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
28. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. Make less active or intense.
31. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
37. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
38. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
40. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
42. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
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