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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. The basic unit of money in Iran.
11. A police officer who investigates crimes.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. Especially one side of a leaf.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
16. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
17. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
19. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
20. A state in northwestern North America.
21. English monk and scholar (672-735).
25. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges.
32. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
35. A flexible container with a single opening.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
45. A small piece of cloth.
47. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
49. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
50. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
52. In bed.
54. The cry made by sheep.
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
5. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
6. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
7. Rate of revolution of a motor.
8. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. Having three dimensions.
26. A person forced to flee from home or country.
27. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
44. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
53. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
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