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1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Extremely pleasing.
7. A book of the New Testament.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. The bill in a restaurant.
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
23. Liveliness and energy.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
32. The cry made by sheep.
33. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
41. A bluish shade of green.
45. Jordan's port.
47. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
48. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. A slight amount or degree of difference.
53. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. Lacking self-confidence.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
5. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. Of southern Europe.
8. An accountant certified by the state.
9. A three-tone Chadic language.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
20. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
24. Artificial and inferior.
25. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
27. An informal term for a father.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. Jordan's port.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A shade of blue tinged with green.
40. Fallow deer.
42. Informal terms for a meal.
43. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
44. A polite name for any woman.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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