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1. Take in solid food.
4. A federally chartered savings bank.
7. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
11. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
12. (informal) Of the highest quality.
13. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
14. A period of time spent sleeping.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. Any competition.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A boy or man.
23. A deep bow.
26. Minor or subordinate.
28. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
29. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
34. Before noon.
35. Obvious and dull.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
45. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. The sign language used in the United States.
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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. Extremely pleasing.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
7. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
8. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
9. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
10. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
19. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
27. Not only so, but.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
33. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
36. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
37. Type genus of the Nepidae.
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
39. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
40. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. An awkward stupid person.
46. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
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