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1. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. Occurring widely (as to many people).
11. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
12. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
15. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
16. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. The cry made by sheep.
26. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
29. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
34. An enclosed space.
37. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
47. Heal or recover.
50. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
51. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
52. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
53. A castrated tomcat.
54. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
55. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
56. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
2. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
3. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
5. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
6. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
7. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
8. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
9. Stalk of a moss capsule.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. An associate degree in applied science.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
35. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
36. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. A small cut of meat including part of a rib.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
43. A town in north central Oklahoma.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
49. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
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