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1. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
5. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
7. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
12. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
13. God of love and erotic desire.
14. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
16. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
17. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
19. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
25. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. A licensed medical practitioner.
28. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
30. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
31. Made of fir or pine.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
44. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
45. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
46. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
47. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
49. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
4. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
7. Jordan's port.
8. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
10. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
15. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
23. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
29. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
32. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
33. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
34. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
36. In bed.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
41. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
42. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
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