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1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
8. The seventh and last day of the week.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
16. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
17. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
19. The compass point midway between north and west.
23. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
25. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
33. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
36. God of the earth.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Not only so, but.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
50. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. Before noon.
5. A boy or man.
6. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
7. An associate degree in applied science.
8. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
20. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
21. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
22. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
35. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
37. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.
38. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. In bed.
43. A light touch or stroke.
46. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
47. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
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