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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. The month following August and preceding October.
7. In bed.
11. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
14. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
15. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
17. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
31. Moderate or restrain.
33. A large fleet.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
44. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
48. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
49. A port in southwestern Scotland.
51. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
52. In or of the month preceding the present one.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A city in northern India.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. A byproduct of inflammation.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
9. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
10. A distinguished female operatic singer.
16. Fiddler crabs.
19. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
34. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
35. One million periods per second.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
39. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. A quantity of no importance.
45. The products of human creativity.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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