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1. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
12. Fallow deer.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Largest known toad species.
16. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
18. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
20. An informal term for a father.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
23. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A boy or man.
32. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. 10 grams.
48. A bachelor's degree in theology.
49. A light touch or stroke.
51. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
52. The site of an archeological exploration.
53. The sixth month of the civil year.
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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. On the positive side or higher end of a scale.
4. A doctor's degree in optometry.
5. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
6. The square of a body of any size of type.
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
9. The capital of Western Samoa.
10. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
15. A French abbot.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
43. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
46. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
50. Unknown god.
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