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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Of southern Europe.
11. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
12. Extremely pleasing.
13. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. An advanced law degree.
16. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
17. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
26. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
28. Lower in esteem.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
32. The cry made by sheep.
33. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
34. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
41. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
51. A light touch or stroke.
52. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
53. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
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1. The event of something ending.
2. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
3. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
4. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
5. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
6. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
7. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
8. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
9. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
10. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
18. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. Made of fir or pine.
29. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
31. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
35. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
36. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
40. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
42. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
43. Standard temperature and pressure.
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
50. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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