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1. Inquire about.
4. A master's degree in library science.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
11. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
14. The products of human creativity.
15. English monk and scholar (672-735).
16. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
17. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. 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.
32. The residue that remains when something is burned.
33. A telegram sent abroad.
37. An informal term for a father.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
44. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
45. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
47. Being one more than nine.
48. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
49. A quantity of no importance.
50. Late time of life.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
3. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
4. Characteristic of a mob.
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. Having leadership guidance.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
9. The act of delivering a blow with the foot.
10. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
22. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
25. State in northeastern India.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
31. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
34. Loose temporary stitches.
35. Lap at the front of a coat.
36. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
46. An associate degree in nursing.
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