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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
8. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
11. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
14. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A white trivalent metallic element.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. Type genus of the Amiidae.
27. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
38. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. The sixth day of the week.
50. Singing jazz.
52. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
53. God of love and erotic desire.
54. (informal) Roused to anger.
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1. A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A boy or man.
6. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
7. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
8. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Extremely pleasing.
24. Informal terms for a mother.
25. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
26. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
32. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
36. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
39. A city in northern India.
40. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
45. Inquire about.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
51. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
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