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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
5. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
7. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
11. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
12. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
25. A master's degree in fine arts.
28. A flexible container with a single opening.
29. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
30. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
32. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
40. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
43. The basic unit of money in Albania.
44. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
45. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991.
51. A female domestic.
53. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
54. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
5. Extremely pleasing.
6. A master's degree in business.
7. A long-playing phonograph record.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. The act of scanning.
10. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
16. A light touch or stroke.
19. Tag the base runner to get him out.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
35. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
36. Extremely pleasing.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Jordan's port.
41. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
42. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. The capital and largest city of Japan.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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