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1. The second largest city in Tunisia.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
12. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
13. A human limb.
14. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
21. Fiddler crabs.
23. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. United States artist whose work reflected social and political themes (1898-1969).
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
38. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
39. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
40. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
42. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
44. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
45. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A local computer network for communication between computers.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. Enlarged prostate.
52. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
3. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
4. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
5. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
6. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
9. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
10. A city in northern India.
18. Hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons.
19. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
20. God of death.
22. Most important element.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
29. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. The cry made by sheep.
33. Wood of any of various maple trees.
34. A male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. A small nail.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. A tight-fitting headdress.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
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