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1. Former measure of the US economy.
4. Offering fun and gaiety.
8. (informal) Of the highest quality.
11. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
12. The face of a timepiece.
13. Serving as an essential component.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. A bachelor's degree in library science.
21. A master's degree in business.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A Mid-Atlantic state.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. By bad luck.
33. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
35. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
42. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
47. Not very intelligent or interested in culture.
48. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
49. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
50. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
51. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
52. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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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 ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
6. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. Jordan's port.
9. Any small compartment.
10. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
15. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
17. A flexible container with a single opening.
19. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
36. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
40. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
41. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
46. An audiotape recording of sound.
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