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1. Extremely pleasing.
4. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
8. (informal) Of the highest quality.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
13. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
14. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
15. A group of countries in special alliance.
16. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
22. Lower in esteem.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. A form of address for a man.
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. The residue that remains when something is burned.
32. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
35. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
43. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
45. A resource.
47. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
48. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. On or toward the lee.
52. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
53. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. A French abbot.
5. A deep bow.
6. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
7. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
8. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
9. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
10. Armor plate that protects the chest.
18. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
20. A bachelor's degree in science.
21. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
23. (informal) Exceptionally good.
28. The cry made by sheep.
30. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
33. Of or relating to alga.
34. Colony of the United Kingdom located on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain.
36. Affect with wonder.
37. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. 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.
42. Type genus of the Amiidae.
43. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
44. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
45. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
51. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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