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1. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A toilet in England.
11. A tight-fitting headdress.
12. Divulge information or secrets.
13. The month following March and preceding May.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
18. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
20. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
21. A large fleet.
23. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. A light touch or stroke.
31. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
34. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
36. The cry made by sheep.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
45. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
51. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
52. The residue that remains when something is burned.
53. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
54. A branch of the Tai languages.
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1. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. An inhabitant of Lappland.
9. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
10. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
15. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
17. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
19. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
24. Informal terms for a mother.
25. A Russian river.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Relating to or characteristic of the Celts.
35. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
40. A vigorous blow.
42. A United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. Full of zest or vigor.
46. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
47. How long something has existed.
50. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
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