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1. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
4. Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness.
8. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
11. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
12. The second largest city in Tunisia.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
15. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
25. (of eggs) No longer edible.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
44. The seventh and last day of the week.
45. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
48. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
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1. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
2. A genus of Mustelidae.
3. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
4. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
5. A city in the European part of Russia.
6. The bill in a restaurant.
7. Go beyond.
8. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
9. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
10. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
18. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
20. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
22. Affect with wonder.
23. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
33. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. 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.
38. A French abbot.
39. Fallow deer.
41. The cry made by sheep.
43. An associate degree in applied science.
44. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
46. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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