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1. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
5. An engineering university in Cambridge.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. The food served and eaten at one time.
12. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
17. A Russian river.
18. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
20. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A fraudulent business scheme.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
37. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
39. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
45. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
48. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
2. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
3. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
4. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
5. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
6. A state in midwestern United States.
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
8. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
9. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
16. An informal term for a father.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. In bed.
25. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. A decree that prohibits something.
30. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
35. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
38. Jordan's port.
40. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
41. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
42. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
43. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. Tag the base runner to get him out.
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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