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1. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
4. Highly excited.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
16. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
31. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
34. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
48. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
50. A master's degree in business.
51. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
52. God of death.
53. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
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1. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
15. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. Before noon.
27. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
28. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
29. Being nine more than ninety.
30. A state in New England.
32. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
33. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
38. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
39. Informal terms for money.
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. South African term for `boss'.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
47. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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