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1. An informal term for a father.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.
17. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
23. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
32. Unknown god.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. An enclosed space.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
42. A state in the eastern United States.
43. The airforce of Great Britain.
45. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
50. An inlaid furniture decoration.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. The habitation of wild animals.
53. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A light touch or stroke.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
8. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
15. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
18. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. A branch of the Tai languages.
21. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
22. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
24. A person forced to flee from home or country.
26. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
27. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
35. A genus of Indriidae.
36. A telegram sent abroad.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
44. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
46. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
47. Of inferior or mixed breed.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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