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1. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. The general activity of selling.
11. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
12. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
13. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
16. Atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward.
17. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
20. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
22. How long something has existed.
24. At full speed.
25. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
33. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
46. (nontechnical usage) A tiny piece of anything.
48. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
49. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
50. Type genus of the Anatidae.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. Gone by.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
4. The square of a body of any size of type.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. An informal term for a father.
7. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
8. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
9. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron.
10. A city in western Germany.
18. 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.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. A genus of Ploceidae.
23. A Spanish river.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Before noon.
32. Ground snakes.
34. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
36. Very dark black.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
40. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A master's degree in business.
45. Preserve of crushed fruit.
47. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
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