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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
11. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
12. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. A boy or man.
15. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
16. The residue that remains when something is burned.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. Greek mythology.
21. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
25. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
29. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
31. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
35. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
48. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
50. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
51. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. Jordan's port.
3. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
7. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
8. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
9. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
18. The cry made by sheep.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
34. A Russian river.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
38. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
39. The basic unit of money in Iran.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
43. The bill in a restaurant.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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