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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Marked by the reception of pay.
8. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
13. How long something has existed.
14. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
15. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
17. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
19. Indigo bush.
20. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
23. (informal) Exceptionally good.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
30. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
32. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. An associate degree in applied science.
48. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
49. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
53. Offering fun and gaiety.
54. The residue that remains when something is burned.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
4. A formal expression of praise.
5. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
6. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
7. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. American novelist (1909-1955).
10. A Russian river.
16. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
18. A sudden desire.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A state in midwestern United States.
33. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
37. Not easy.
38. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. Type genus of the Amiidae.
42. South African term for `boss'.
43. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
45. A flexible container with a single opening.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. A master's degree in business.
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