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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
8. A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.
11. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
12. The sixth month of the civil year.
13. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
14. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
15. Type genus of the Ranidae.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
30. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
36. An Anatolian language.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
44. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
52. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
53. Divulge information or secrets.
54. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
6. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
7. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
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.
18. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
20. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
22. An associate degree in applied science.
24. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
25. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. Extremely pleasing.
35. A light touch or stroke.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
38. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
39. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
40. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
41. A city in northern India.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
49. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
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