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1. A master's degree in library science.
4. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
8. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
11. The month following August and preceding October.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
15. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
16. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
17. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. A resource.
35. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
40. A Hindu prince or king in India.
44. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
47. Being six more than fifty.
50. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
51. An affirmative.
52. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
53. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
54. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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1. One thousandth of a second.
2. A Russian river.
3. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
4. Genus of African timber trees.
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
7. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
8. A licensed medical practitioner.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
33. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
36. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
38. The central area of a church.
39. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
41. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
42. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
43. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
45. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
48. 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.
49. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
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