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1. A master's degree in library science.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
13. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
14. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
15. A boy or man.
16. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
17. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
29. 32nd President of the United States.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
33. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
35. (informal) Exceptionally good.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
46. A city in the European part of Russia.
47. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
49. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
50. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
5. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
6. God of wealth and love.
7. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
8. The last (12th) month of the year.
9. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
10. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
20. A light touch or stroke.
24. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. A son who has the same first name as his father.
28. The residue that remains when something is burned.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
37. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
38. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
41. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
44. The cry made by sheep.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
48. A doctor's degree in religion.
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