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1. Former measure of the US economy.
4. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
8. A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.
11. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
12. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
13. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
24. (logic or grammar) Of or relating to scope.
30. The bill in a restaurant.
32. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
33. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
37. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
42. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
46. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
49. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. In bed.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. A compact mass.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
4. A bachelor's degree in science.
5. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
6. A three-tone Chadic language.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
10. A city of central China.
15. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
23. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
25. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
26. A light touch or stroke.
27. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
28. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
29. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
40. A Loloish language.
41. An informal term for a father.
43. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
45. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
46. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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