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1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. Greenish-yellow pear.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
12. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. The basic unit of money in Iran.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
24. The capital and largest city of Liechtenstein.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
31. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
33. A boy or man.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
46. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. By bad luck.
53. A bachelor's degree in religion.
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1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. Jordan's port.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
6. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. Immature of its kind.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
28. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Type genus of the Anatidae.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. The food served and eaten at one time.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
44. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
45. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
47. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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