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1. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
4. Castrate, used with animals.
8. A light touch or stroke.
11. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
12. Encountered generally especially at the present time.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
18. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
20. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
22. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. A kind of person.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
31. The last (12th) month of the year.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A Russian river.
38. The cry made by sheep.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
46. (informal) Exceptionally good.
48. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
52. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
53. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
54. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
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1. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
2. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
3. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
4. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
5. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
6. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
7. Not only so, but.
8. Little known Kamarupan languages.
9. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
10. Obvious and dull.
15. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. A long-playing phonograph record.
26. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
34. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
40. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
41. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
42. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
43. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
45. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
47. A unit of pressure.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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