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1. Extremely pleasing.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
16. 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.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
24. A unit of weight used in some Spanish speaking countries.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Inquire about.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. Of southern Europe.
52. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. 16 ounces.
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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
5. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
9. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
20. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
21. A master's degree in fine arts.
22. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. 16 ounces.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
37. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
39. Type genus of the Anatidae.
40. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. God of love and erotic desire.
46. (informal) Roused to anger.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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