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1. A doctor's degree in education.
4. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display.
8. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
11. A woman religious.
12. The basic unit of money in Iran.
13. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
18. A state in midwestern United States.
19. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
22. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
23. The residue that remains when something is burned.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
37. A dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta.
42. English essayist (1775-1834).
44. Black tropical American cuckoo.
47. Divulge information or secrets.
48. The airforce of Great Britain.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. (informal) Exceptionally good.
51. The last (12th) month of the year.
52. A light touch or stroke.
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1. Razor clams.
2. Formerly a gold coin of various European countries.
3. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
4. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. Being one more than twelve.
6. A genus of Ploceidae.
7. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
8. Among the largest bony fish.
9. Not only so, but.
10. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
15. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
24. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
27. The cry made by sheep.
28. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. One million periods per second.
32. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
33. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
36. A radioactive transuranic element.
38. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
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.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
46. An informal term for a father.
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