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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. A fraudulent business scheme.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A decree that prohibits something.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
21. A flexible container with a single opening.
23. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
26. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. Top part of an apron.
49. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
50. Fiddler crabs.
51. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
52. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A local computer network for communication between computers.
4. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
5. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
6. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
7. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. Squash bugs.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. Unknown god.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
36. A telegram sent abroad.
37. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
38. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
39. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
40. The basic unit of money in Iran.
41. Large American feline resembling a lion.
42. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
44. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Being nine more than ninety.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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