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1. English monk and scholar (672-735).
5. A flexible container with a single opening.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. The dull explosive noise made by an engine.
15. (Brit) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
20. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. By bad luck.
32. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
35. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
46. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
48. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
49. The residue that remains when something is burned.
50. South African term for `boss'.
51. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. Strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
2. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
3. Material used to daub walls.
4. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. How long something has existed.
7. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
33. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
34. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
37. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
38. A vigorous blow.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
47. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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