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1. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
4. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
8. Not reflecting light.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
16. An informal term for a father.
17. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
18. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
19. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
23. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
27. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. Step on it.
34. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
35. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
36. A radioactive transuranic element.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. The airforce of Great Britain.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
52. Divulge information or secrets.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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1. 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.
2. Come to pass.
3. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. A genus of Ploceidae.
6. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
7. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. A master's degree in business.
20. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
21. The cry made by sheep.
24. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
25. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
26. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
28. Being one more than one hundred.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. An enclosed space.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
40. English monk and scholar (672-735).
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
49. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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