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1. A boy or man.
4. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. Being one more than two.
12. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
16. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
22. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. A state of southwestern India.
31. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A motley assortment of things.
40. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
50. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
51. South African term for `boss'.
52. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
53. An expression of greeting.
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1. Of a pale purple color.
2. Garlic mayonnaise.
3. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
4. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
5. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
6. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. Tropical Asian starlings.
9. A branch of the Tai languages.
10. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
15. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
17. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Singing jazz.
25. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
29. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
33. New Zealand conifer.
34. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. A lyric poet.
37. That is to say.
38. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
39. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
41. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
42. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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