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1. 10 grams.
4. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
7. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
11. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
12. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
16. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
17. A light touch or stroke.
20. A decree that prohibits something.
24. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
26. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
28. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
32. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A bachelor's degree in religion.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
49. A flexible container with a single opening.
52. Step on it.
53. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
54. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. A state of southwestern India.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
6. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
7. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
8. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
25. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
27. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
33. A young woman making her debut into society.
34. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
39. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
40. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. A doctor's degree in religion.
47. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
50. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
51. An honorary degree in science.
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