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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. An informal term for a father.
7. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
11. (informal) Exceptionally good.
12. A public promotion of some product or service.
13. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
14. Made by polymerizing butadiene.
15. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
16. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
17. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
18. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
21. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
23. An informal term for a father.
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. A decree that prohibits something.
33. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Type genus of the Otariidae.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. The airforce of Great Britain.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
53. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
54. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
55. A quantity of no importance.
56. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. A French abbot.
2. A small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix.
3. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
4. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
5. A genus of Ploceidae.
6. The sixth month of the civil year.
7. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
8. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
9. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
10. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
24. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A city in northern India.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
40. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. Set down according to a plan.
44. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
45. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. A resource.
49. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
52. An associate degree in nursing.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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