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1. A copy of a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together).
5. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
7. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. Not widely known.
12. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
13. God of love and erotic desire.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
16. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
17. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
20. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
21. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. The capital and largest city of Japan.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
29. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
32. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
35. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. An accountant certified by the state.
50. God of the underworld.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
2. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
3. Using speech rather than writing.
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
6. A flexible container with a single opening.
7. Jordan's port.
8. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
10. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
18. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
26. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
28. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. A quantity of no importance.
41. Armor plate that protects the chest.
42. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
44. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
46. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
49. A Russian river.
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