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1. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
4. The compass point that is one point east of southeast.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
13. A period of time spent sleeping.
14. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
15. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
24. (informal) Exceptionally good.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. The cry made by sheep.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A master's degree in business.
36. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. A city in the European part of Russia.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
53. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
7. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. One millionth of a gram.
19. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
33. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
40. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
41. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
45. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
46. A doctor's degree in education.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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