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1. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
5. The bill in a restaurant.
8. A tight-fitting headdress.
11. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
12. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
17. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
19. Squash bugs.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
27. The capital of Croatia.
30. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
31. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
34. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times.
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
46. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
47. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
49. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
50. An enclosed space.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. A constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Octans.
2. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
3. The act of scanning.
4. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
5. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
9. By bad luck.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
18. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
20. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
21. In a foreign country.
23. The unit of frequency.
26. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
28. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
29. (computer science) A unit for measuring computing power.
32. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
33. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
35. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
41. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
43. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
44. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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