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1. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
4. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
7. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
11. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. English monk and scholar (672-735).
14. The products of human creativity.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
17. Common Indian weaverbird.
19. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
20. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
21. Jordan's port.
24. Loose or flaccid body fat.
26. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
28. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
39. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. An informal term for a father.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
48. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
49. Make keen or more acute.
51. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
52. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
53. A quantity of no importance.
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1. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
2. The basic unit of money on Malta.
3. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
4. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
5. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
7. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
8. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
9. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. A state in northwestern North America.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
23. The cry made by sheep.
25. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
33. A telegram sent abroad.
34. A genus of Platalea.
36. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. In bed.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
45. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
51. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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