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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. The face of a timepiece.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. 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.
15. A native of ancient Troy.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. A master's degree in business.
20. A white trivalent metallic element.
21. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
26. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
28. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
33. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
40. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. A quantity of no importance.
47. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
48. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
50. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
51. A branch of the Tai languages.
52. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
53. A doctor's degree in education.
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1. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
2. The sixth month of the civil year.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A doctor's degree in religion.
5. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
6. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
9. Squash bugs.
10. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
16. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
32. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. Source of a tough elastic wood.
35. Small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button.
38. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
39. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
44. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
45. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
49. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
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