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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. Minor or subordinate.
7. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
11. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
12. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
13. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
15. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
16. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
17. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
26. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
27. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
28. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A flexible container with a single opening.
33. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
45. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
46. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
49. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
50. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.
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1. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. Any of various units of capacity.
6. Not only so, but.
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
10. A town in north central Oklahoma.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. Squash bugs.
21. An enclosed space.
22. Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876).
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
34. Act together, as of organisms.
35. (Greek mythology) The rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods.
36. An informal term for a father.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
40. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
47. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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