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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. A light touch or stroke.
7. Loose or flaccid body fat.
11. Failing to detonate.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
14. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
15. One million periods per second.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
24. American novelist (1909-1955).
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
31. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. Inquire about.
41. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
43. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
50. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
3. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
4. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
5. An organization of military land forces.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
8. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Divulge information or secrets.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
23. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
25. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
27. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
32. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Jordan's port.
36. A branch of the Tai languages.
37. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. That is to say.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
42. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
46. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
48. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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