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1. God of the earth.
4. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A resource.
15. A quantity of no importance.
16. A master's degree in business.
17. United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961).
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
52. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
53. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
54. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
55. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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1. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
2. British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature (1888-1965).
3. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
4. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Dwell (archaic).
7. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A city in east central Texas.
19. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
23. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
24. A state in midwestern United States.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
29. A state in northwestern North America.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
37. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
41. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
45. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. A light touch or stroke.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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