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1. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
11. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. An accidental happening.
14. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
19. Of or relating to Slavic languages.
21. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
33. Before noon.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
38. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
42. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
45. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
51. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. The cry made by sheep.
55. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. A French abbot.
3. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
4. (Spanish) Saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken.
5. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
6. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
7. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
8. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
9. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
10. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. 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.
25. A person forced to flee from home or country.
26. Towards the side away from the wind.
28. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
29. The square of a body of any size of type.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
38. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A large number or amount.
43. South African term for `boss'.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. Extremely pleasing.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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