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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. A beautiful and graceful girl.
12. How long something has existed.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
15. Tag the base runner to get him out.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign.
20. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
23. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
26. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
30. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
33. 10 grams.
34. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
41. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
45. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
46. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
48. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
49. Fiddler crabs.
52. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
53. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
54. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
55. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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1. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
2. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. Obvious and dull.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A young woman making her debut into society.
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.
18. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
32. A resource.
36. The cry made by sheep.
38. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
39. The food served and eaten at one time.
40. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
41. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
42. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
43. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
44. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
47. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
50. Before noon.
51. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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