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1. What you can repeat immediately after perceiving it.
4. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
8. Fiddler crabs.
11. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
12. One thousandth of a second.
13. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
14. A human limb.
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
25. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
30. A fraudulent business scheme.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
38. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
42. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
43. An accidental happening.
44. A sudden short attack.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
48. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
50. How long something has existed.
51. A negative.
52. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
53. One million periods per second.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
5. Of southern Europe.
6. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
7. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
8. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
9. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
20. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. Of southern Europe.
35. A cylindrical spikelike inflorescence.
36. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
37. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
39. 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.
40. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. 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.
45. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
46. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
49. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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