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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. Occurring widely (as to many people).
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
26. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
29. Offering fun and gaiety.
30. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
32. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
33. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A branch of the Tai languages.
42. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
44. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
48. A master's degree in business.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
51. Tag the base runner to get him out.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A master's degree in fine arts.
5. A resource.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
22. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
31. An associate degree in applied science.
34. A genus of Lamnidae.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. Jordan's port.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A city in the European part of Russia.
46. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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