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1. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
4. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
8. (Babylonian) The sky god.
11. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
12. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
13. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
14. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
15. The face or front of a building.
17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
19. A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century.
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
23. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
25. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. Offering fun and gaiety.
36. An oil port in southern Iraq.
39. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
40. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
43. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
44. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
45. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
46. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
47. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
48. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans.
49. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
50. Before noon.
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1. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
2. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
7. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
8. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
9. A quantity of no importance.
10. A person who makes use of a thing.
16. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
21. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
22. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
24. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
27. A port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
34. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
35. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
37. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
38. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
41. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
42. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
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