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1. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
4. Highly excited.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
11. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
15. Advanced in years.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
26. A German city near Leipzig.
28. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
31. Before noon.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. An accountant certified by the state.
37. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
41. Lower in esteem.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
49. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
50. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. In bed.
52. Goddess of fate.
53. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. Singing jazz.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.
4. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
5. A humorous anecdote or remark.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. 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.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. The cry made by sheep.
23. 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.
25. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
27. The square of a body of any size of type.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A genus of Ploceidae.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
42. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
43. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
44. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
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