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1. In bed.
5. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
8. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
12. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
13. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
14. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
15. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
16. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
17. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
19. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
23. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
24. A salt of any halogen acid.
27. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
28. The sixth month of the civil year.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
36. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. In a manner differing from the usual or expected.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
51. A master's degree in business.
52. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
4. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
5. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
6. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
7. The capital and largest city of Japan.
8. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
9. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
18. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
20. Type genus of the Amiidae.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. English monk and scholar (672-735).
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
33. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
34. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
35. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
37. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. A state in northwestern North America.
50. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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