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1. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
11. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
12. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
13. The sixth month of the civil year.
14. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
15. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Type genus of the Anatidae.
20. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
22. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
27. Late time of life.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A river in southeastern France.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. Strong and sharp.
50. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
51. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
58. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981).
4. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
5. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. A state in midwestern United States.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
10. Toward the mouth or oral region.
16. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
19. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
23. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
24. Divulge information or secrets.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
36. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
38. United States baseball player (born 1925).
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
44. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
45. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
49. An awkward stupid person.
53. Informal terms for a mother.
54. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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