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1. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
4. The highest level or degree attainable.
8. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise.
11. Seed of a pea plant.
12. A human female who does housework.
13. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
14. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
15. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
16. Water frozen in the solid state.
17. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Advanced in years.
24. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
30. Long and thin and often limp.
31. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
34. (informal) Exceptionally good.
40. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
41. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. The act of catching an object with the hands.
46. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
47. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
48. The property of being large in mass.
49. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
50. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
51. Before noon.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Perceive sound.
3. God of death.
4. (informal) Of the highest quality.
5. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
6. The month following February and preceding April.
7. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
8. Being one more than sixty.
9. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
10. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
18. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
20. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
23. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. Liquid excretory product.
33. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
35. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A wound made by cutting.
38. English essayist (1775-1834).
39. Full of zest or vigor.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A heavy precious metallic element.
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