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1. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
4. Elegant and stylish.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
15. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
16. A master's degree in business.
17. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. 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.
25. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
50. (British) Your grandmother.
51. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
52. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. A branch of the Tai languages.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
56. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
4. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
5. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
6. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
7. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. An associate degree in nursing.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
35. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
36. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
37. God of wealth and love.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. South African term for `boss'.
43. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
44. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
45. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
47. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
48. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
49. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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