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1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
7. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
15. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
25. A retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies).
29. An informal term for a father.
31. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
45. Tropical Asian starlings.
46. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
47. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
48. Marked by the reception of pay.
49. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. A long-playing phonograph record.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
24. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
35. A city in northern India.
36. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
37. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
40. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
41. Black tropical American cuckoo.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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