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1. A communication system using fiber optic cables.
5. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
17. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
26. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
28. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. One million periods per second.
40. A state in the eastern United States.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
42. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
47. Inquire about.
49. A light touch or stroke.
50. The basic unit of money in Romania.
51. Soft creamy white cheese.
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1. A hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting).
2. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
3. A bluish shade of green.
4. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Seed of a pea plant.
8. Among the largest bony fish.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
18. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. The compass point that is midway between north and northwest.
21. A doctor's degree in optometry.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
24. An associate degree in nursing.
27. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
29. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. Not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. A genus of Indriidae.
34. A telegram sent abroad.
36. An informal term for a father.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
44. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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