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1. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
8. Inquire about.
11. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. Noisy talk.
17. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
27. (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
35. Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras.
37. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
39. An informal term for a father.
40. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
45. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
50. A Mid-Atlantic state.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A state in east central United States.
54. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
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1. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
4. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
5. Common Indian weaverbird.
6. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
7. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
20. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
22. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
24. A state in midwestern United States.
25. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
26. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
33. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
36. A drama set to music.
37. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
43. In bed.
44. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
46. A light touch or stroke.
47. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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