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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
13. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
14. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
17. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
18. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
20. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
23. Bright and pleasant.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A master's degree in fine arts.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
33. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
34. A port city in southwestern Iran.
38. A large fleet.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
44. The airforce of Great Britain.
47. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
48. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
50. Of southern Europe.
51. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. Slightly insane.
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1. A slender double-reed instrument.
2. Especially one side of a leaf.
3. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
4. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
5. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. By bad luck.
8. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Not only so, but.
19. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
21. In a foreign country.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. A state in midwestern United States.
35. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
36. Lower in esteem.
37. In small tight curls.
39. Not widely known.
40. The template for protein synthesis.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
45. A resource.
46. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
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