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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
7. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
13. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
14. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
17. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
25. A light touch or stroke.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Adult female chicken.
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
37. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
53. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
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1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
4. Fiddler crabs.
5. 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.
6. In bed.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
9. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
16. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
33. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
35. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
36. God of wealth and love.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. An informal term for a father.
43. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
45. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
46. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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