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1. How long something has existed.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. Of or relating to alga.
16. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
17. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
18. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
19. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. An informal term for a father.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. Compete for something.
29. Water frozen in the solid state.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
35. A form of Japanese poetry.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. The square of a body of any size of type.
42. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
46. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
48. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
49. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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1. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
2. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
3. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
4. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
7. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
20. The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
25. The event of dying or departure from life.
28. A decree that prohibits something.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
34. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
39. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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