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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. Extremely pleasing.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
11. Informal terms for a mother.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. The last (12th) month of the year.
14. In bed.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
19. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
21. A city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea.
24. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
26. A light touch or stroke.
30. Lower in esteem.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
36. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. A slight amount or degree of difference.
39. Noisy talk.
43. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
46. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
47. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. A primeval personification of air and breath.
4. An informal term for a father.
5. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
6. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
7. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
10. The act of scanning.
18. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
20. A state in northwestern North America.
22. An associate degree in applied science.
23. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Common Indian weaverbird.
34. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
42. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
44. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
45. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
49. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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