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1. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
5. Seed of a pea plant.
8. 10 grams.
11. On or toward the lee.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
15. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
22. In bed.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A port city in southwestern Iran.
29. The month following January and preceding March.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
35. Regional and archaic.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
44. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
45. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
48. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
49. Adult female chicken.
50. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
51. A master's degree in business.
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1. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
2. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
3. God of the earth.
4. That is to say.
5. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
6. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
9. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
10. Offering fun and gaiety.
16. An informal term for a father.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. A young woman making her debut into society.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A flexible container with a single opening.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. A waiter at a drive-in restaurant.
32. The cry made by sheep.
34. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
36. An agenda of things to do.
37. Very dark black.
39. Not agitated.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. An informal term for a father.
47. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
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