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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
8. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
13. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
15. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
16. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
19. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
21. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
24. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
27. The cry made by sheep.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
33. Any of various units of capacity.
35. A flexible container with a single opening.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
49. Characteristic of a mob.
53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
54. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
55. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
56. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. Having leadership guidance.
6. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
7. Jordan's port.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
10. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
18. Extremely pleasing.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
23. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
34. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. Very dark black.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
43. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
44. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. Being nine more than ninety.
52. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
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