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1. A French abbot.
5. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
8. The bill in a restaurant.
11. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. How long something has existed.
14. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
15. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
19. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
25. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
33. Cut the head of.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. The content of cognition.
42. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. In bed.
49. A boy or man.
50. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
51. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
52. A doctor's degree in education.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A primeval personification of air and breath.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. An unofficial association of people or groups.
4. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
5. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
6. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
9. A city in northern India.
10. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
18. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
20. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
22. Serving as or forming a base.
23. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain.
34. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
41. Fallow deer.
43. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
44. (informal) Roused to anger.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. 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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