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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 room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
8. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
11. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
12. How long something has existed.
13. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
14. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
17. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
18. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
20. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
22. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
30. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
32. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
43. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
46. Any of various small biting flies.
47. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. God of love and erotic desire.
51. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
52. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
54. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
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1. Belonging to some prior time.
2. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
3. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
4. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
8. One thousandth of a second.
9. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
19. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
26. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
36. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
37. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
39. A quantity of no importance.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
44. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
45. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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