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1. The month following September and preceding November.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
11. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
12. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
13. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
14. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. (botany) Divided into two lobes.
27. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. A native of ancient Troy.
36. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
46. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
48. Heal or recover.
49. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
50. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
2. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
3. To an excessive degree.
4. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
5. An accidental happening.
6. How long something has existed.
7. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
8. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
18. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
24. Top part of an apron.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
33. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
34. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
35. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
37. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
38. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
41. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
44. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
45. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
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