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1. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A master's degree in library science.
11. (Babylonian) The sky god.
12. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. The first month of the year.
15. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
18. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
29. To some (great or small) extent.
31. A state in northwestern North America.
32. An enclosed space.
35. The act of scanning.
38. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
40. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
41. An accidental happening.
45. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
46. A town in north central Oklahoma.
47. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
48. How long something has existed.
49. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
50. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Squash bugs.
3. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
8. The month following March and preceding May.
9. A Russian river.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
20. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
30. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
33. A grant made by a law court.
34. A telegram sent abroad.
36. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
37. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
39. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
42. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
43. Black tropical American cuckoo.
44. Two items of the same kind.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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