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1. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
5. An enclosed space.
8. (informal) Roused to anger.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
15. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
16. State in northeastern India.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
25. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
27. Jordan's port.
29. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
30. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
31. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
34. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
37. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
40. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. Full of zest or vigor.
46. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
51. Used of a single unit or thing.
52. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
53. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A boy or man.
4. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
8. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
17. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
23. An informal term for a father.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
28. Unknown god.
32. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
33. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
35. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
36. The head of a city government.
38. A historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain.
39. A French abbot.
43. A decree that prohibits something.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
46. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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