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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
8. The sign language used in the United States.
11. Less than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
12. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
13. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
14. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
17. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
21. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
24. Deciduous shrub of North America.
26. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
27. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
30. A blind god.
32. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
33. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. The last (12th) month of the year.
43. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
47. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. 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.
50. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
51. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
54. Before noon.
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1. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
2. A desert in central Asia.
3. Distant in either space or time.
4. Submerged freshwater perennials.
5. A Mid-Atlantic state.
6. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
7. Jordan's port.
8. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
9. An unforeseen obstacle.
10. A Loloish language.
16. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.
22. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
28. A radioactive transuranic element.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. Excessively fat.
34. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
44. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. A master's degree in business.
46. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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