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1. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
5. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
8. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
11. (informal) Valuable goods.
12. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
13. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
14. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
18. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
19. Before noon.
21. A light touch or stroke.
23. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
32. An informal term for a father.
35. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
42. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A visual presentation showing how something works.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
50. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
51. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
2. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
3. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
4. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
37. Avatar of Vishnu.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
40. God of love and erotic desire.
41. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
43. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
44. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
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