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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Speaking a Slavic language.
8. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Common Indian weaverbird.
16. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
17. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
19. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
21. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. A master's degree in business.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
49. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
51. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
52. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
53. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
54. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Type genus of the Anatidae.
3. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
4. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
6. A city in northern India.
7. Curved rodlike motile bacterium.
8. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
9. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
24. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
26. By bad luck.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. In bed.
41. An informal term for a father.
42. A small nail.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
47. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
48. A Mid-Atlantic state.
50. A bachelor's degree in religion.
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