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1. A small island.
5. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
8. Informal terms for a mother.
11. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
12. Being two more than fifty.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. Of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
27. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
28. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
29. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
41. 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.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
48. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
49. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
50. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
51. The sign language used in the United States.
52. English essayist (1775-1834).
53. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
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1. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. (Irish) The sea personified.
4. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
6. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
9. Using speech rather than writing.
10. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
19. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
25. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
26. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
33. A telegram sent abroad.
34. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
35. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
36. An Eskimo hut.
38. Armor plate that protects the chest.
39. The season when the leaves fall from the trees.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
45. Being six more than fifty.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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