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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. A depression in an otherwise level surface.
7. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
31. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
34. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
38. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
43. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
47. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
48. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
50. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
51. The residue that remains when something is burned.
52. Tag the base runner to get him out.
53. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
54. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A light touch or stroke.
5. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. A genus of Ploceidae.
7. A shape that sags.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
18. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. A small piece of cloth.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
35. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
36. Lower in esteem.
37. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
39. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. An associate degree in applied science.
45. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. A Russian river.
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