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1. In bed.
5. A person forced to flee from home or country.
7. Especially one side of a leaf.
11. The property of distance in general.
12. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
16. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
17. Noisy talk.
18. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
22. Being nine more than ninety.
23. A motley assortment of things.
26. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
30. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
31. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
42. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
45. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
47. A port in southwestern Scotland.
50. A resource.
51. In or of the month preceding the present one.
52. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
53. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
54. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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1. Distant in either space or time.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
6. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
7. The basic unit of money in Macao.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
15. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
19. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
20. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
21. Largest known toad species.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A castrated tomcat.
27. A decree that prohibits something.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. 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.
36. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
38. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
40. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
41. An informal term for a father.
43. The products of human creativity.
44. Considerate and solicitous care.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. The airforce of Great Britain.
47. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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