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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. A decree that prohibits something.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
23. In bed.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. 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.
30. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
40. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
44. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
45. Being here now.
46. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
48. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
49. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. A state in northwestern North America.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
7. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
8. Top part of an apron.
9. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
18. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
19. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
21. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
22. A flexible container with a single opening.
24. The cry made by sheep.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
32. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
33. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
34. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
37. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
38. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. The fatty flesh of eel.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. A bachelor's degree in religion.
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