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1. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
4. A fastener for a door or lid.
8. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
11. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A doctor's degree in education.
14. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
15. A cry of sorrow and grief.
16. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
17. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
20. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
22. The capital city of Vietnam.
25. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
28. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
29. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. Top part of an apron.
49. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
51. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
52. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
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1. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
2. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
7. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
8. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
19. The cry made by sheep.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. An associate degree in applied science.
37. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
41. South African term for `boss'.
44. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. A bachelor's degree in religion.
50. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
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