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1. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
11. Give a nickname to.
12. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
16. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
18. The larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter.
21. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
26. Informal terms for a mother.
29. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
32. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
35. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
36. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
37. A light touch or stroke.
40. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
55. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
56. A resource.
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1. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
2. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
3. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
4. Great coolness and composure under strain.
5. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
6. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. The sound made by a gentle blow.
9. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
17. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
20. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
25. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
27. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
28. The residue that remains when something is burned.
30. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. A flexible container with a single opening.
38. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. A decree that prohibits something.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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