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1. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
4. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
8. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
13. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
14. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
24. Avatar of Vishnu.
26. Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. A female domestic.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A bachelor's degree in religion.
36. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
42. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
47. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
48. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
49. Affectedly dainty or refined.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
51. The residue that remains when something is burned.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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1. The state of owing money.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. Ground snakes.
4. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
5. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704).
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Seed of a pea plant.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
18. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
20. Annual or perennial herbs with large leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968).
34. Make less active or intense.
37. Belonging to some prior time.
38. God of love and erotic desire.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Type genus of the Anatidae.
41. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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