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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
11. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
12. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
13. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
14. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. An associate degree in nursing.
22. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
23. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
25. An informal term for a father.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. Statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (born in 1924).
32. Suggestive of the supernatural.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
38. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
44. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
45. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
50. A light touch or stroke.
51. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. The square of a body of any size of type.
4. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. A quantity of no importance.
7. Before noon.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Type genus of the Majidae.
10. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
15. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
16. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
20. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
24. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A bluish-white lustrous metallic element.
30. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. Indigo bush.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
34. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
35. United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978).
37. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.
39. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
42. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
48. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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