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1. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
5. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
8. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
11. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
12. Lacking self-confidence.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
14. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
15. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
16. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. A written order directing a bank to pay money.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. A cruel and brutal fellow.
34. A light touch or stroke.
37. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
43. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
49. An associate degree in nursing.
50. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
51. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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1. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
4. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
5. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
10. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
18. Leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion.
20. A city in northern India.
22. A state in northwestern North America.
23. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
25. A unit of power equal to 746 watts.
26. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
29. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
30. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
33. Jordan's port.
35. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
39. Not widely known.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. Before noon.
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