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1. The first month of the year.
4. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
15. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
19. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
28. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
31. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
36. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
39. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
43. Of or relating to a creed.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
47. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
50. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
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1. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
6. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
7. United by being of the same opinion.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
22. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
23. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England.
33. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
37. A small nail.
38. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
42. A French abbot.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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