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1. How long something has existed.
4. Fallow deer.
8. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
11. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
12. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
13. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
14. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
16. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
19. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
23. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. (informal) Of the highest quality.
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
48. A local computer network for communication between computers.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
52. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
53. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
56. A light touch or stroke.
57. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
58. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
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1. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
2. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
3. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
4. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
5. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
6. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
7. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
9. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
10. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
28. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
29. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A local computer network for communication between computers.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
44. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
45. By bad luck.
47. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
50. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
55. A bachelor's degree in religion.
56. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
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