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1. A female person who has the same parents as another person.
4. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
15. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
16. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
17. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
21. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. A native-born Israeli.
30. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
31. A flexible container with a single opening.
32. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
34. 10 grams.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
42. An enclosed space.
44. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
48. Type genus of the Anatidae.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
52. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
53. Being one more than one hundred.
54. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
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1. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
2. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
3. A deep bow.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
6. American dramatist (1928- ).
7. An informal term for a father.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
20. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).
23. Having been read.
24. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
27. Any of various units of capacity.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
35. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
43. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. Enlarged prostate.
47. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
48. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
49. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
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