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1. In bed.
5. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
8. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
11. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
12. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
15. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. An accidental happening.
20. A state in the eastern United States.
22. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
24. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
31. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Offering fun and gaiety.
47. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
48. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
4. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
5. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
6. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
7. Call upon in supplication.
8. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
9. Steal goods.
10. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
19. Having or characterized by excessive moisture.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. A boy or man.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A bachelor's degree in religion.
35. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. Very dark black.
39. An informal term for a father.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
44. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
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