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1. Informal terms for money.
5. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. Armor plate that protects the chest.
12. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Serving as or forming a base.
15. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
16. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. A flexible container with a single opening.
25. A port city in southwestern Iran.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A person of unquestioning obedience.
36. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
43. Having a sharply uneven surface or outline.
46. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
48. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
50. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
51. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
52. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
53. An informal term for a father.
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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
4. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
5. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
21. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
23. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
24. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
26. A light touch or stroke.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
34. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
35. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
37. In bed.
38. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
39. A Russian river.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
45. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
46. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
47. A doctor's degree in religion.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
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