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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
16. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
24. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
25. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
29. In bed.
32. Flat crusty-bottomed onion roll.
34. Before noon.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
39. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
42. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
45. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
46. The month following February and preceding April.
49. Towards the side away from the wind.
52. A master's degree in business.
53. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
54. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
55. An informal term for a father.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
6. A large indefinite number.
7. The sixth month of the civil year.
8. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
18. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. Jordan's port.
23. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. Two items of the same kind.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
35. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
40. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
41. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
49. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
50. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. A white trivalent metallic element.
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