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1. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
8. An honorary degree in science.
11. A slight amount or degree of difference.
12. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
13. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
14. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
15. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
16. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
20. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
23. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
25. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
29. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
31. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
32. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
34. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. Being one more than two.
50. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
6. A boy or man.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
9. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes.
10. An informal term for a father.
18. The basic unit of money in Macao.
19. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
21. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
30. Mucus-secreting membrane lining all body cavities or passages that communicate with the exterior.
33. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
34. A boy or man.
35. In bed.
36. A sudden short attack.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
40. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. Being two more than fifty.
46. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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