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1. Select as an alternative.
4. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
8. Of southern Europe.
11. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
15. New information about specific and timely events.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
19. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
24. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
52. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
53. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
54. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
55. A state in midwestern United States.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Type genus of the Pipidae.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
5. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
6. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
7. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
8. Growing old.
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
32. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
35. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
36. Lower in esteem.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
46. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
51. A Mid-Atlantic state.
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