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1. Former measure of the US economy.
4. A shaped mass of baked bread.
8. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
11. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
12. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
17. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. (botany) Relating to or attached to the axis.
21. A large number or amount.
24. A light touch or stroke.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
30. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
32. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. Extremely pleasing.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
50. Something acquired without compensation.
52. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
53. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
54. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. A compact mass.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
4. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
5. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
6. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
7. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
8. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
15. The sound made by corvine birds.
20. Being one more than ninety.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
26. Divulge information or secrets.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. The hulled and crushed grain of various cereals.
37. Lower in esteem.
38. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
42. Not out.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A master's degree in fine arts.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
51. A state in northwestern North America.
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