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1. Select as an alternative.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
11. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
12. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
13. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
14. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
15. A licensed medical practitioner.
16. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
17. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. 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.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
43. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
46. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
47. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
48. Using speech rather than writing.
49. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Type genus of the Pipidae.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. Before noon.
5. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
6. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
7. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
8. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
9. Sour or bitter in taste.
10. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. The cry made by sheep.
20. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
22. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A light touch or stroke.
31. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
33. English monk and scholar (672-735).
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
36. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
37. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
44. A flexible container with a single opening.
45. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
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