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1. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. The face of a timepiece.
13. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. A licensed medical practitioner.
17. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
18. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. French novelist.
23. Irritate or vex.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
36. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
38. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
43. An informal term for a father.
45. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
49. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
50. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
51. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. An associate degree in applied science.
53. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
54. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
55. A doctor's degree in religion.
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1. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
2. Come to pass.
3. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
4. A bachelor's degree in religion.
5. A resource.
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
8. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
9. The content of cognition.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
25. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
26. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
30. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
32. Informal terms for a mother.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
37. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
44. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
46. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
47. Any of various units of capacity.
48. Towards the side away from the wind.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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