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1. How long something has existed.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
12. Type genus of the Anatidae.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
15. Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the surface of the sun.
23. German mathematician (1804-1851).
25. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
29. A state in New England.
30. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
33. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
40. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
50. A flexible container with a single opening.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. Fiddler crabs.
54. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. Expel, as of gases and odors.
4. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. Found along western Atlantic coast.
7. Inquire about.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
19. An associate degree in applied science.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
34. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
41. Not widely known.
42. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
43. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
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