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1. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
5. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
8. The bill in a restaurant.
11. Type genus of the Majidae.
12. Informal terms for the mouth.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. A master's degree in business.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
32. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. An ancient port city in southwestern Spain.
38. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. Marked by the reception of pay.
47. Any of various units of capacity.
49. God of death.
51. A strong emotion.
52. God of the earth.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. A local computer network for communication between computers.
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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. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
4. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
5. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. An accountant certified by the state.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
9. A city in northern India.
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
18. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
19. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
21. Inability to walk.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
25. In bed.
27. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
31. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A French abbot.
37. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
39. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
40. A genus of Mustelidae.
41. Chief port of Yemen.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. 16 ounces.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.
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