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1. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
5. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. Not reflecting light.
11. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
12. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
17. A bachelor's degree in religion.
18. A radioactive transuranic element.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
30. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
46. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. Used of a single unit or thing.
50. How long something has existed.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
3. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
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.
19. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
20. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
21. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
22. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
23. A person forced to flee from home or country.
25. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
34. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
35. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
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 very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
46. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
48. An honorary degree in science.
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