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1. Former measure of the US economy.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
12. The center of an object.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
25. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
27. A young woman making her debut into society.
30. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
32. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
35. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. An accountant certified by the state.
41. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
45. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
54. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
55. In bed.
56. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
57. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
58. A small cake leavened with yeast.
59. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
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1. A compact mass.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
4. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
5. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A doctor's degree in education.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
20. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. Minor or subordinate.
31. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. The cry made by sheep.
40. A genus of Ploceidae.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
44. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
45. A doctor's degree in optometry.
46. An extravagantly enthusiastic review.
47. Belonging to some prior time.
48. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
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