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1. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
5. A Russian river.
7. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
11. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
12. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. A unit of pressure.
16. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
17. An accidental happening.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
20. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
21. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
23. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
26. The cry made by sheep.
30. Divulge information or secrets.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
43. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. The month following January and preceding March.
50. A light touch or stroke.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An artificial source of visible illumination.
4. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. Not in operation or operational.
6. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
7. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
9. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
10. A French abbot.
15. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
22. Extremely pleasing.
24. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. Being one more than fifty.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
37. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
38. A doctor's degree in music.
39. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
40. (British slang) Cafe.
41. In bed.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. Tag the base runner to get him out.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A decree that prohibits something.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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