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1. A musical work that has been created.
5. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
15. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
17. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
22. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
24. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
29. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
30. The cry made by sheep.
31. The last (12th) month of the year.
32. An awkward stupid person.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. The Indic language of the Sindhi people.
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
48. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
49. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
51. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. God of the earth.
55. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
5. The capital of Morocco.
6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. Of or like a cecum.
9. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
10. Any of several short-billed Old World rails.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A French abbot.
20. Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
39. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. An unofficial association of people or groups.
43. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
46. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
47. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
50. A Russian river.
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