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1. A French abbot.
5. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
7. South African term for `boss'.
11. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
12. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. Someone whose job is to dye cloth.
15. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
16. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
17. Take in solid food.
20. A Mid-Atlantic state.
22. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
24. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
28. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
44. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
49. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
50. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
54. A doctor's degree in education.
55. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. Biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root.
4. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
5. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
6. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
10. The general activity of selling.
18. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
19. The quantity contained in a keg.
21. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A slight amount or degree of difference.
27. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
31. A bachelor's degree in religion.
32. A thrusting blow with a knife.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. Jordan's port.
39. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
41. (informal) Exceptionally good.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. Extremely pleasing.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
51. Informal terms for a mother.
52. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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