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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. The sign language used in the United States.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
18. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
29. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
30. Extremely pleasing.
31. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
33. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A town in north central Oklahoma.
44. A resource.
47. A master's degree in business.
48. An informal term for a father.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
51. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
52. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
53. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. A French abbot.
2. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
3. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. A building where prostitutes are available.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. In addition.
7. Small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
22. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. 10 grams.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Obvious and dull.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
36. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
37. 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.
39. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
40. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
41. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
43. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. A light touch or stroke.
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