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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. Divulge information or secrets.
8. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
11. A rapid bustling commotion.
12. A city in northern India.
13. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
14. Russian mathematician (1856-1922).
16. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
21. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
23. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
34. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
36. God of wealth and love.
40. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
50. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
51. A light touch or stroke.
52. A young woman making her debut into society.
53. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Fallow deer.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. Infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
8. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
9. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
10. A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.
15. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
17. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
20. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
22. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
24. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. Before noon.
29. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
30. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
32. A flexible container with a single opening.
35. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
36. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
37. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
46. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
47. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
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