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1. (Babylonian) The sky god.
4. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
12. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. The sign language used in the United States.
15. A French abbot.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. Common Indian weaverbird.
19. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
21. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
24. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
27. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
36. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
37. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
39. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
41. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
45. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A decree that prohibits something.
51. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. An engineering university in Cambridge.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
56. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
3. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
6. A small faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere.
7. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. An associate degree in applied science.
20. (biology) Of unlike parts or organs.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
23. Avatar of Vishnu.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A white trivalent metallic element.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. A drama set to music.
36. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
42. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
43. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
44. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
46. A light touch or stroke.
48. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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