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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
11. The act of drawing or hauling something.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. A French abbot.
15. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. The cry made by sheep.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. Largest crested screamer.
28. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
34. A bachelor's degree in religion.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
48. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
49. A fraudulent business scheme.
50. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
51. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
52. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
53. A master's degree in fine arts.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. A small cake leavened with yeast.
3. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
4. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
5. 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.
6. How long something has existed.
7. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
8. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
9. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
22. A genus of Platalea.
23. In bed.
24. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. Very dark black.
37. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
38. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
39. God of love and erotic desire.
40. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
41. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
47. 10 grams.
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