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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
5. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
11. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
19. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
24. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
26. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. A French abbot.
33. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
34. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
35. A city in northern India.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
44. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
46. The quantity contained in a keg.
47. A flexible container with a single opening.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. How long something has existed.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
4. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
5. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
6. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. The closing section of a musical composition.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. Top part of an apron.
22. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
23. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
28. An informal term for a father.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
32. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
36. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
37. A feeling of intense anger.
39. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
40. A Loloish language.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. Before noon.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
49. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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