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1. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
4. Highly excited.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
17. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A slight amount or degree of difference.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
28. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
31. A proportion multiplied by 100.
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
38. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
40. South African term for `boss'.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
49. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
50. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
52. A light touch or stroke.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. An Eskimo hut.
55. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
21. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
35. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
39. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
41. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
42. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
43. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
45. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
47. Not in good physical or mental health.
48. The basic unit of money in Romania.
51. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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