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1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. Common Indian weaverbird.
8. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
13. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. A tight-fitting headdress.
16. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
17. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
30. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
32. A radioactive transuranic element.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. The basic unit of money in Albania.
48. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
50. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
51. Offering fun and gaiety.
52. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. Not only so, but.
7. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
10. The capital of Western Samoa.
18. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
20. The cry made by sheep.
21. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
22. How long something has existed.
23. An informal term for a father.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. (informal) Of the highest quality.
35. In bed.
36. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
40. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. A flexible container with a single opening.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
45. A master's degree in business.
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