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1. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
13. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
14. Not only so, but.
15. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
18. Extremely pleasing.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. An associate degree in applied science.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
34. A person forced to flee from home or country.
36. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
37. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
38. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
48. Two items of the same kind.
49. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
50. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
53. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
20. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
21. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
22. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
23. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A flexible container with a single opening.
35. Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long.
36. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
43. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A master's degree in business.
47. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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