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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. A quantity of no importance.
8. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
11. An awkward stupid person.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. One of a family of granular intrusive rocks.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
22. An associate degree in nursing.
24. Noisy talk.
26. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
32. (informal) Of the highest quality.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
50. Black tropical American cuckoo.
51. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
52. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
53. An enclosed space.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
56. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
7. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
8. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. (British and Australian) A cheap wine of inferior quality.
15. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. Common Indian weaverbird.
20. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
23. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A person forced to flee from home or country.
28. An informal term for a father.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
39. Of or relating to near the ear.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
47. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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