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1. A city in the European part of Russia.
4. A lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. Estrangement from god.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
16. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
17. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
18. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
23. A master's degree in business.
25. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
31. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
34. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
35. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. A Loloish language.
50. Having leadership guidance.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
53. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
2. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
3. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
6. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
7. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
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.
15. A master's degree in fine arts.
20. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
21. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
22. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. A Russian river.
32. How long something has existed.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
41. In bed.
42. A quantity of no importance.
44. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
46. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
47. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
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