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1. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
4. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
12. Very light colored.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A unit of pressure.
15. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
19. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A human limb.
25. Capital of modern Macedonia.
26. The capital of Croatia.
29. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
31. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
33. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
39. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
45. A local computer network for communication between computers.
46. Above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
47. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
48. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
49. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
50. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
51. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface.
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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
3. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. A sultanate in northwestern Borneo.
20. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
23. A master's degree in business.
24. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
27. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
30. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
32. Muslim name for God.
33. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
35. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
36. Of or relating to or involving an area.
40. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
41. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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