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1. God of the earth.
4. A master's degree in library science.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. The last (12th) month of the year.
14. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
15. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
24. An awkward stupid person.
25. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
29. God of the earth.
30. An expression of greeting.
31. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
33. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
34. (informal) Exceptionally good.
38. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
43. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Gone by.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
7. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
10. The act of scanning.
18. The cry made by sheep.
20. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
22. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
26. A radioactive transuranic metallic element.
27. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
28. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A feeling of intense anger.
36. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
37. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
38. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
39. A sudden short attack.
40. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
44. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
45. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
48. A Russian river.
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