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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. A blind god.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. A small piece of cloth.
13. English essayist (1775-1834).
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
16. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. The cry made by sheep.
23. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
25. A young woman making her debut into society.
28. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
30. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
31. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. Informal terms for a mother.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A branch of the Tai languages.
50. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
51. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
53. A Hindu theistic philosophy.
54. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. Wearing or provided with clothing.
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
5. Covered with paving material.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Pertaining to or near the sun.
8. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A city in northern India.
24. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
39. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
40. Common Indian weaverbird.
42. An informal term for a father.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. Make amends for.
46. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
47. A humorous anecdote or remark.
48. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
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