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1. A unit of pressure.
4. Extremely pleasing.
7. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
11. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
14. Being one more than nine.
15. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
16. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
32. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
33. Common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
49. A light touch or stroke.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. An honorary arts degree.
2. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
3. An island northwest of Wales.
4. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. Common Indian weaverbird.
7. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. Battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943).
10. Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
23. A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
36. A small nail.
38. English monk and scholar (672-735).
40. In bed.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. An informal term for a father.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
51. Not out.
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