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1. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
13. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
14. Any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556.
15. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
16. An associate degree in nursing.
17. A book of the New Testament.
19. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
20. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
21. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
29. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
32. In or of the month preceding the present one.
33. A fraudulent business scheme.
34. The basic unit of money in Uruguay.
36. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. Being one more than two.
46. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
47. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
51. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
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1. Vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments.
2. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
3. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
4. A decree that prohibits something.
5. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
6. The capital of Nationalist China.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
9. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
10. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
18. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
22. A Loloish language.
23. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. The month following July and preceding September.
30. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
31. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
35. English essayist (1775-1834).
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
39. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. A master's degree in business.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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