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1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. In bed.
8. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. Not divisible by two.
17. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
18. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. The cry made by sheep.
29. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
32. The capital of Croatia.
34. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
35. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
36. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
48. Being six more than fifty.
49. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
51. A yearning for something or to do something.
52. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
3. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
6. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
9. Jordan's port.
10. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
28. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
30. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
31. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
33. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
37. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
38. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
39. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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