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1. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Top part of an apron.
11. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
12. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
13. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
14. A coffin along with its stand.
16. An enclosed space.
17. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
27. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
29. 35th President of the United States.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
36. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
39. A doctor's degree in music.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
46. The last (12th) month of the year.
49. (informal) Roused to anger.
50. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
2. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
3. How long something has existed.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
9. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
10. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
15. Having been read.
20. A resource.
21. A kind of person.
24. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
25. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
30. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
32. Either extremity of something that has length.
34. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
35. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
37. The content of cognition.
38. Framework for holding objects.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. An informal term for a father.
44. The cry made by sheep.
47. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
48. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
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