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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
7. An informal conversation.
11. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
12. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
13. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
14. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
15. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
23. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
28. A Mid-Atlantic state.
29. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
30. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
32. An informal term for a father.
34. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
42. Advanced in years.
43. Squash bugs.
46. A small cake leavened with yeast.
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
51. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
52. The residue that remains when something is burned.
53. One who works hard at boring tasks.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
5. A rapid bustling commotion.
6. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
7. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
8. A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language.
9. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. An associate degree in applied science.
35. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
39. Type genus of the Anatidae.
40. Negation of a word or group of words.
41. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
42. An uproarious party.
44. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
45. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
50. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
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