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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. A humorous anecdote or remark.
11. How long something has existed.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Not only so, but.
15. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
16. A flexible container with a single opening.
17. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
18. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
19. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
23. Being nine more than ninety.
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
35. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
47. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
51. A light touch or stroke.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
53. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
54. Informal terms for a mother.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. Advanced in years.
3. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
4. Before noon.
5. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
6. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
7. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
8. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
25. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
31. Half the width of an em.
33. The cry made by sheep.
34. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A Hindu prince or king in India.
41. One thousandth of a second.
42. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
45. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. An associate degree in applied science.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
49. Being one more than one hundred.
50. A state in midwestern United States.
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