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1. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
5. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
7. The capital and largest city of Norway.
11. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
12. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
13. A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services.
14. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
15. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
16. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
17. (informal) Of the highest quality.
19. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
21. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. Sour or bitter in taste.
27. Goddess of war.
28. Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
30. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
43. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
48. An informal term for a father.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. A bachelor's degree in theology.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
3. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
4. Used of a single unit or thing.
5. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
6. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
7. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
8. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
9. (Norse mythology) Trickster.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
20. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
22. A motley assortment of things.
25. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
26. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. A midwestern state in north central United States.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
37. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
43. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
44. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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