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1. The bill in a restaurant.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A genus of Ploceidae.
16. Of or relating to or involving an area.
18. The content of cognition.
20. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. The fatty flesh of eel.
27. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
31. Jordan's port.
33. A motley assortment of things.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
38. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
50. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
52. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
53. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. A boy or man.
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1. A native American tent.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
6. Being nine more than ninety.
7. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
15. A light touch or stroke.
17. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
19. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
22. Jordan's port.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. Military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces.
39. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
40. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. British informal term.
48. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
49. Any of various units of capacity.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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