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1. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
5. An honorary degree in science.
7. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
13. Advanced in years.
14. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
15. Black tropical American cuckoo.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
26. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. Make difficult to perceive by sight.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
42. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
46. An audiotape recording of sound.
47. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. Offering fun and gaiety.
52. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. Made of fir or pine.
6. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
7. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. Jordan's port.
19. Covered with paving material.
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. 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.
36. An elaborate song for solo voice.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Make an etching of.
43. A flexible container with a single opening.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
45. A master's degree in business.
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