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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Family based on male descent.
8. Standard temperature and pressure.
11. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. God of death.
16. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
22. A light touch or stroke.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
46. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. The month following July and preceding September.
51. By bad luck.
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1. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
2. A major god.
3. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
4. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
5. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
6. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
7. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
8. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
9. (of persons) Neat and smart in appearance.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
23. (informal) Exceptionally good.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
38. The food served and eaten at one time.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. Fiddler crabs.
44. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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