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1. Using speech rather than writing.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
11. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. A proportion multiplied by 100.
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
30. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
34. An associate degree in applied science.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. Of or relating to or containing barium.
38. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
40. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
43. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
46. A city in northern India.
48. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
49. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. The cry made by sheep.
56. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
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1. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
2. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The basic unit of money on Malta.
5. A tight-fitting headdress.
6. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. The closing section of a musical composition.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
18. A flexible container with a single opening.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
25. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. An insane person.
33. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
37. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
39. Type genus of the Amiidae.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
42. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
44. Tag the base runner to get him out.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
48. Before noon.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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