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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. An informal term for a father.
13. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
16. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
25. A port city in southwestern Iran.
29. 10 grams.
30. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
31. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
33. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. Distant in either space or time.
41. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
43. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
45. Water frozen in the solid state.
46. In bed.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
51. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
52. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
5. One who works hard at boring tasks.
6. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. Divulge information or secrets.
9. A large indefinite number.
10. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
18. Extremely pleasing.
20. Lower in esteem.
21. A flexible container with a single opening.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
32. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A city in east central Texas.
37. On or toward the lee.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. The face of a timepiece.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. The square of a body of any size of type.
48. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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