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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
11. An awkward stupid person.
12. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
13. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
15. An honorary law degree.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
18. The sound of laughing.
20. An associate degree in nursing.
23. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
26. Before noon.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
37. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
38. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
39. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins).
47. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
49. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
52. A milkshake made with malt powder.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
55. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. An Eskimo hut.
7. An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade.
8. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
9. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
10. The act of scanning.
19. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. United States financier (born in France) who helped finance the War of 1812 (1750-1831).
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A master's degree in business.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A state in northwestern North America.
30. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
33. Arrived at without due care or effort.
35. By bad luck.
37. English monk and scholar (672-735).
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. One who works hard at boring tasks.
43. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
44. With no effort to conceal.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
49. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
51. 1/10 gram.
52. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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