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1. God of the underworld.
4. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots.
8. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
11. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment.
16. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
18. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. A light touch or stroke.
26. A doctor's degree in education.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
28. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Top part of an apron.
35. A Loloish language.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
44. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
48. (informal) Roused to anger.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
51. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
54. Largest known toad species.
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1. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
3. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
4. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
20. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
30. A Russian river.
31. A flexible container with a single opening.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. A city in southeastern South Korea.
43. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
47. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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