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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. An enclosed space.
7. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
14. A ribbon used as a decoration.
17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
18. An uproarious party.
19. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
24. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
25. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
28. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
29. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
31. The last (12th) month of the year.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
47. A city in the European part of Russia.
48. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
49. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
50. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
51. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
52. A city of central China.
53. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
2. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. Mix up or confuse.
6. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
7. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
8. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
9. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
10. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
15. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
16. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
21. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
26. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. (trademark) An antacid.
32. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A slender double-reed instrument.
37. 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.
38. (Norse mythology) Trickster.
40. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
41. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. A decree that prohibits something.
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