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1. Rate of revolution of a motor.
4. A unit of pressure.
7. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
11. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
12. A partially opened flower.
13. A city in northern India.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. An informal term for a father.
17. A boy or man.
18. A bottle with a stopper.
20. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
22. (British) Your grandmother.
23. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
26. (informal) Exceptionally good.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. An associate degree in nursing.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
36. A castrated tomcat.
41. A large fleet.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
46. Very dark black.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. Produced by a manufacturing process.
51. A master's degree in business.
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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
4. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
5. Of surpassing excellence.
6. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. One who works hard at boring tasks.
8. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
9. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
10. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
15. An informal term for a father.
19. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
21. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
28. In the same place (used when citing a reference).
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
43. Used of a single unit or thing.
47. A doctor's degree in optometry.
48. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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