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1. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
4. Slightly open.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. An awkward stupid person.
12. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Singing jazz.
16. A city in north central Morocco.
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. Not in operation or operational.
21. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
23. A public square with room for pedestrians.
24. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
26. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
30. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
31. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
32. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. A strong emotion.
49. A quantity of no importance.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
51. A doctor's degree in education.
52. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A master's degree in fine arts.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
6. (informal) Of the highest quality.
7. Change the size of.
8. By bad luck.
9. A narrow way or road.
10. The act of scanning.
15. A yellow quartz.
20. The state of being covered with unclean things.
22. The cry made by sheep.
25. An associate degree in applied science.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
29. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
33. English monk and scholar (672-735).
34. Before noon.
35. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
37. An informal term for a father.
38. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
39. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
40. A lyric poet.
41. In bed.
43. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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