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1. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
4. South African term for `boss'.
8. Any of various units of capacity.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. Advanced in years.
13. Any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556.
14. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. A police officer who investigates crimes.
17. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
18. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A subdivision of a larger religious group.
28. Highly excited.
29. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
32. The month following July and preceding September.
33. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
41. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. Being two more than fifty.
47. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. Water frozen in the solid state.
50. A light touch or stroke.
51. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. How long something has existed.
6. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
7. A state in north central United States.
8. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
9. Make less visible or unclear.
10. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
16. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
19. A knapsack (usually for a soldier).
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
21. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
22. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
30. A number to which another number (the addend) is added.
31. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
34. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
35. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
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.
42. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
43. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground.
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