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1. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
7. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
11. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
12. Extremely pleasing.
13. (medieval Europe) A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord.
14. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
15. Containing an unusual amount of grease or oil.
17. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
24. A telegram sent abroad.
26. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. Unknown god.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. Imprudently incurring risk.
33. A Russian river.
34. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
49. 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.
50. Tag the base runner to get him out.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
3. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
4. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
5. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
6. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
10. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
16. Noisy talk.
19. The amount a salary is increased.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
35. The basic unit of money on Malta.
36. A small nail.
37. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
43. An associate degree in applied science.
46. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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