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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. The state of owing money.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. A toilet in England.
12. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
13. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
14. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
15. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
16. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A town in central Belgium.
21. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
25. Having help.
27. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. The cry made by sheep.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
37. Not only so, but.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
48. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
49. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
51. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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1. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
2. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
3. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
4. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
5. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. The lowest brass wind instrument.
8. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
9. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
10. Singing jazz.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
20. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
22. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
26. A light touch or stroke.
28. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
29. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
36. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
38. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
39. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
45. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
50. An honorary degree in science.
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