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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
5. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
7. Similar to the color of jade.
11. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
12. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
13. In bed.
14. The sixth month of the civil year.
15. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
16. Cut off the testicles.
17. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. An informal term for a father.
24. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. A person forced to flee from home or country.
27. Any plant of the genus Erica.
31. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
33. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
37. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
38. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
40. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
42. A light touch or stroke.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
52. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
54. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
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1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
6. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
7. A large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard.
8. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
9. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
19. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
20. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. The content of cognition.
34. (anatomy) A structure that resembles a shell in shape.
39. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
40. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A French abbot.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. The foot of a human being.
48. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
51. A doctor's degree in optometry.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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