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1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. The residue that remains when something is burned.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. A genus of Mustelidae.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
15. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. An associate degree in nursing.
19. Wear away.
24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
27. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
31. A boy or man.
33. Young sheep.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
43. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
45. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
47. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. The act of scanning.
3. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
4. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
5. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
6. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
18. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
20. The basic unit of money in Iran.
21. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
22. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
26. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. Before noon.
30. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
32. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
34. The cry made by sheep.
36. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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