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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. The general activity of selling.
8. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
13. A column of light (as from a beacon).
14. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
15. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
16. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
17. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
20. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
22. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
24. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
25. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. A yearning for something or to do something.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
36. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
40. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
44. A branch of the Tai languages.
45. Offering fun and gaiety.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. A master's degree in business.
50. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
51. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
52. Tag the base runner to get him out.
53. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
54. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
3. A public promotion of some product or service.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
7. (computer science) A system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in.
8. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
9. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
10. A bluish shade of green.
18. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
19. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
33. A state in northwestern North America.
34. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
35. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. A genus of Lamnidae.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Jordan's port.
41. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
42. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. The eleventh month of the civil year.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
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