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1. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. Telephone line (Wide Area Telephone Service).
11. A Scottish church.
12. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
16. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
23. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
26. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
34. The last (12th) month of the year.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A state in northwestern North America.
38. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
44. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
48. Extremely pleasing.
49. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
52. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. A master's degree in business.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. Tropical Asian starlings.
3. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
4. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
7. Pan with a convex bottom.
8. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
9. A three-tone Chadic language.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. An informal term for a father.
18. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
25. An informal term for a father.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
30. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
39. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
40. A French abbot.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
45. A federally chartered savings bank.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
51. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
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