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1. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
12. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
13. The month following February and preceding April.
14. A Hindu prince or king in India.
16. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. Before noon.
19. South African term for `boss'.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
25. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
34. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
44. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Used of physical heat.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
50. Used of a single unit or thing.
51. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
52. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. The leg from the knee to foot.
7. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
20. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
23. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. A pass between mountain peaks.
27. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A shape that sags.
31. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
32. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
40. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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