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1. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. In a competent capable manner.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Willing to face danger.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
16. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
18. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A flexible container with a single opening.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
30. Young sheep.
33. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
34. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
36. A light touch or stroke.
37. A state in northwestern North America.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
53. Offering fun and gaiety.
54. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
55. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
56. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
57. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
58. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
3. A public promotion of some product or service.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
7. Not only so, but.
8. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
9. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
21. A slender double-reed instrument.
22. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
29. Inquire about.
31. Informal terms for a mother.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
47. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
52. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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