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1. Sleep in a convenient place.
5. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
12. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. (Babylonian) The sky god.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
21. Relating to or near the radius.
23. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. The cry made by sheep.
31. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
36. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
42. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
50. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
53. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate.
2. Belonging to some prior time.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
6. A humorous anecdote or remark.
7. Jordan's port.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. Very fertile.
10. Largest known toad species.
18. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. Made of fir or pine.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. Having much flesh (especially fat).
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
39. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
40. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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