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1. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. Not reflecting light.
11. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
17. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
36. (informal) Exceptionally good.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
47. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
48. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
49. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
50. A light touch or stroke.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. A state in the western United States.
2. Type genus of the Hylidae.
3. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
4. A city in northern India.
5. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
6. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
7. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
35. A state in midwestern United States.
37. Avatar of Vishnu.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
40. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Noisy talk.
44. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
45. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
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