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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
8. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
11. An awkward stupid person.
12. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
16. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
22. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
27. The capital of Croatia.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Before noon.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
47. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
48. Not final or absolute.
49. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
50. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
51. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
52. The cry made by sheep.
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
5. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
6. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
7. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
20. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
21. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
24. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
34. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
35. A master's degree in fine arts.
36. Any plant of the genus Erica.
37. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
40. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
41. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
43. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. Term of address for a man.
46. A person's brother or sister.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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