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1. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
4. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
11. Fiddler crabs.
12. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
13. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
14. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
16. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
18. A Russian river.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. The basic unit of money in Romania.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
26. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
32. A genus of Indriidae.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
37. In bed.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
50. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
52. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
55. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. A soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
4. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. A nation in northern North America.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
9. A slender double-reed instrument.
10. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
15. A bachelor's degree in theology.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
25. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
27. The eleventh month of the civil year.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. A light touch or stroke.
33. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
34. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
38. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
39. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
43. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
44. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
46. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
48. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
49. Liquid excretory product.
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