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1. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. Divulge information or secrets.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. Avatar of Vishnu.
13. The month following February and preceding April.
14. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
16. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Tag the base runner to get him out.
30. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
34. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.
36. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
44. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
50. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
54. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
55. A light touch or stroke.
56. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
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1. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
4. (informal) Exceptionally good.
5. Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.
6. Before noon.
7. The cry made by sheep.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. In bed.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A partially opened flower.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
35. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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