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1. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
5. An informal term for a father.
8. Of southern Europe.
11. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
12. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
15. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
16. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
17. A bachelor's degree in religion.
18. A radioactive transuranic element.
20. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
33. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
35. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
38. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
50. Produced by a manufacturing process.
51. How long something has existed.
52. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
53. A primeval personification of air and breath.
54. A local computer network for communication between computers.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
3. 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.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. A light touch or stroke.
6. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. Gone by.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
19. Extremely pleasing.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
34. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
36. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
37. A master's degree in fine arts.
39. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
40. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
41. Chief god of the Rig-Veda.
43. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
44. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
47. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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