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1. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
14. A city in east central Texas.
16. A pass between mountain peaks.
17. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
18. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
24. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
31. (informal) Exceptionally good.
33. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. Chief port of Yemen.
49. A local computer network for communication between computers.
50. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
51. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
52. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
53. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
54. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
55. An associate degree in applied science.
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1. An awkward stupid person.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. A Russian river.
5. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
6. Very dark black.
7. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
8. The highest level or degree attainable.
9. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
23. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
38. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
39. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
44. Type genus of the Anatidae.
47. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
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