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1. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
4. Fill to satisfaction.
8. How long something has existed.
11. A unit of pain intensity.
12. One of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy.
13. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
16. A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.
18. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
19. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
20. The cry made by sheep.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. Having leadership guidance.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
43. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. A salt of any halogen acid.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
48. (informal) Roused to anger.
50. An informal term for a father.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
53. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. A member of the Moslem dynasty that ruled India until 1857.
3. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
4. Short and fat.
5. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
6. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
7. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
8. Absent without permission.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
21. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
22. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
23. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. A quantity of no importance.
39. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
40. A state in midwestern United States.
41. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
46. A light touch or stroke.
49. A doctor's degree in religion.
51. A state in northwestern North America.
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