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1. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
5. A state in northwestern North America.
7. An Egyptian descended from the ancient Egyptians.
11. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
12. Unknown god.
13. The content of cognition.
14. A unit of pressure.
15. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
18. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
20. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
23. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
26. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
28. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
34. 10 grams.
35. A light touch or stroke.
37. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
52. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
54. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
55. A French abbot.
56. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An artificial source of visible illumination.
4. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
5. Jordan's port.
6. God of love and erotic desire.
7. Being one more than one hundred.
8. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
9. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
19. A genus of Ploceidae.
21. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
25. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. In bed.
39. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
40. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. Long and thin and often limp.
44. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
45. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
48. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
49. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
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