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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
5. A bachelor's degree in science.
7. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. Toward the mouth or oral region.
12. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
13. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
14. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
15. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
16. In bed.
17. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
19. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
21. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
31. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
35. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
49. Wild and domestic cattle.
51. Remaining after all deductions.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. A member of an Indian people of northern California living along the Russian River valley and adjacent Pacific coast.
2. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
3. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
4. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
9. The men who man a ship or aircraft.
10. Located on a side.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. The cry made by sheep.
23. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
25. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.
36. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
37. Lower in esteem.
40. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
41. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
45. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. A light touch or stroke.
50. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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