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1. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
5. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
8. Inquire about.
11. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
12. (informal) Of the highest quality.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. An informal term for a father.
15. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
20. The cry made by sheep.
23. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
25. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
32. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
36. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. Jordan's port.
45. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
46. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
48. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
49. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
2. Lacking excess flesh.
3. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
4. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. 1/10 gram.
21. Jordan's port.
22. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
24. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
26. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
27. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. A genus of Platalea.
32. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
33. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. Largest known toad species.
38. Derive or receive pleasure from.
39. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
40. A state in northwestern North America.
43. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
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