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1. Former measure of the US economy.
4. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. The cry made by sheep.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A master's degree in business.
28. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
30. The last (12th) month of the year.
31. A small cake leavened with yeast.
33. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
34. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
39. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
42. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
43. Not only so, but.
47. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
48. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
50. A loud harsh or strident noise.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
52. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
53. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
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1. A compact mass.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
4. A long-playing phonograph record.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
22. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
23. Type genus of the Amiidae.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
35. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
37. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
46. A light touch or stroke.
49. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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