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1. United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829).
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Slightly wet.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
13. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
14. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
15. A fraudulent business scheme.
17. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. Obvious and dull.
24. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
26. How long something has existed.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Sour or bitter in taste.
36. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
40. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
41. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
43. Fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used.
44. A Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
46. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
47. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
48. In bed.
49. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
50. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
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1. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. A republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean.
4. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
5. Related to or located at the back.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
8. A large fleet.
9. The food served and eaten at one time.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
16. A master's degree in fine arts.
19. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
22. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
23. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. A card game for 2 players.
33. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
34. Cause to ripen.
35. English monk and scholar (672-735).
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
38. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
39. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
42. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
45. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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