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1. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
4. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
8. An awkward stupid person.
11. The residue that remains when something is burned.
12. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
13. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
14. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
15. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
27. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
29. 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.
30. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
32. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
36. An associate degree in applied science.
40. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
45. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
46. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
48. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
49. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. One thousandth of a second.
3. A doctor's degree in theology.
4. An honorary degree in science.
5. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
6. English essayist (1775-1834).
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
10. An agenda of things to do.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
21. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. (Sumerian) Sun god.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
31. The quantity contained in a keg.
33. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
34. Ludicrously odd.
35. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. In the near future.
39. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. A resource.
44. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
48. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
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