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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
12. In bed.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Used of a single unit or thing.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. The sixth month of the civil year.
22. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
40. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
45. Liquid excretory product.
46. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
47. Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio.
48. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
49. Taking place over public roads.
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1. Jordan's port.
2. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
3. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.
7. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
19. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
21. A light touch or stroke.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
26. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
28. (trademark) An antacid.
30. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
34. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
36. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
37. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
39. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
41. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
42. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
43. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
44. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
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