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1. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
4. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
12. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A coffin along with its stand.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
21. 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.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
29. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
32. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
35. An enclosed space.
38. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
40. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
41. A state in the eastern United States.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
49. An inlaid furniture decoration.
50. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
51. The residue that remains when something is burned.
52. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
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1. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
2. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
3. How long something has existed.
4. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
5. A sudden short attack.
6. Jordan's port.
7. The cry made by sheep.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
15. The basic unit of money in Iran.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. Singing jazz.
23. Being one more than one.
25. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
28. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
30. A tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave.
31. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
33. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
34. A state in New England.
36. A genus of Indriidae.
37. A telegram sent abroad.
39. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
40. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
45. Of inferior or mixed breed.
46. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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