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1. Informal terms for a mother.
4. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A master's degree in library science.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
13. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
14. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. Seed of a pea plant.
16. Avatar of Vishnu.
17. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
19. Unwisely talking too much.
21. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
27. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
35. Being one more than one hundred.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
41. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
45. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. Not only so, but.
50. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
52. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
53. An informal term for a father.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
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1. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
4. A tight-fitting headdress.
5. An overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.
6. Divulge information or secrets.
7. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
10. Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
18. A region in southeastern Italy on the Adriatic.
20. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
22. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
23. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
33. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A genus of Accipitridae.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
48. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
49. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
50. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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