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1. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
5. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
14. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
15. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
18. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
24. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
35. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
46. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
47. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
48. A master's degree in business.
49. Range of what one can know or understand.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
51. Noisy talk.
52. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
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1. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. Fallow deer.
5. A thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra.
6. Any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape.
7. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
8. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
19. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
20. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
23. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
26. The residue that remains when something is burned.
27. A decree that prohibits something.
29. Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines).
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. The sixth month of the civil year.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
42. A light touch or stroke.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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