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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. The act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope.
11. An awkward stupid person.
12. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
17. The basic unit of money in Albania.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
24. A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving.
29. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs.
30. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
34. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
46. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
48. Characteristic of a mob.
49. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A flexible container with a single opening.
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. The eleventh month of the civil year.
5. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
6. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
7. A native of ancient Troy.
8. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
15. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
20. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
21. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
26. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
27. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
31. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. An area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up.
36. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
37. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
38. 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. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
42. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
45. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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