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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
16. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
17. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. In bed.
23. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
24. An awkward stupid person.
26. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. A form of Japanese poetry.
36. The act of drawing or hauling something.
38. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
39. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
40. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
47. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
48. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
51. Being one more than two.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. A French abbot.
54. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
5. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
25. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
27. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. A Loloish language.
32. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
35. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
36. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
37. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
41. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. Set down according to a plan.
44. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
48. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
49. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
50. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
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