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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. The residue that remains when something is burned.
8. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
11. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
12. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
13. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
14. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
15. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. Of or relating to or involving an area.
34. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. Has a good chance of being the case or of coming about.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. Not divisible by two.
47. A three-tone Chadic language.
49. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
2. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
3. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
4. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
5. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
8. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
9. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. The fatty flesh of eel.
22. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
25. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. Obscene terms for penis.
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
35. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
37. Minor or subordinate.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
42. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
43. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
46. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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