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1. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. One thousand periods per second.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
13. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
14. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
16. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
17. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
18. An associate degree in nursing.
19. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
21. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
23. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
24. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
26. A state in midwestern United States.
27. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
29. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
30. Any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
34. Any plant of the genus Erica.
38. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. Not only so, but.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
49. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
50. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
51. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
52. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
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1. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
2. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
3. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
6. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
10. Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment.
15. A shoe with a wedge heel.
20. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
22. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
25. The first month of the year.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
35. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
36. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
37. Make less active or intense.
39. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
40. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. A light touch or stroke.
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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