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1. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
5. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
8. Injured by bites or stings.
11. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
12. How long something has existed.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. Before noon.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. A young woman making her debut into society.
17. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
23. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
30. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
33. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
35. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. Gone by.
39. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
40. (Norse mythology) The heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.
44. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
52. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
53. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. An informal term for a father.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
3. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
4. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
5. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
8. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
9. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. Tag the base runner to get him out.
19. A quantity of no importance.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
34. A master's degree in business.
36. An internal representation of the world.
38. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
39. Of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A sudden short attack.
43. Fallow deer.
44. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
49. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
50. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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