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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. (informal) Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A Hindu prince or king in India.
13. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
14. The bill in a restaurant.
15. A small nail.
16. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
24. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. Jordan's port.
29. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
46. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
48. The cry made by sheep.
49. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. 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).
5. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
6. Slightly open.
7. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
9. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
18. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
20. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
21. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
22. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
23. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
25. A state in northwestern North America.
28. Adorned by inlays.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
36. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
37. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
38. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
42. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. A decree that prohibits something.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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