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1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
7. Loose or flaccid body fat.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer.
14. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
17. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
18. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
20. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. The eleventh month of the civil year.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. The last (12th) month of the year.
28. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A city in northwestern Turkey.
39. Bordered by a line of things.
44. German musician who developed a system for teaching music to children (1895-1982).
47. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
48. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
49. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
50. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
53. A master's degree in fine arts.
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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. Extremely pleasing.
5. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
6. A light touch or stroke.
7. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
8. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. Divulge information or secrets.
16. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A choice or delicious dish.
26. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
29. (informal) Of the highest quality.
30. A state in northwestern North America.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
38. (in writing) See below.
40. God of love and erotic desire.
41. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
42. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
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