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1. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
12. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
15. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
16. A master's degree in business.
17. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
19. A person forced to flee from home or country.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
23. (informal) Of the highest quality.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Water frozen in the solid state.
34. Obvious and dull.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. Having leadership guidance.
42. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
48. (informal) Exceptionally good.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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1. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
2. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
3. Spin or twist together so as to form a cord.
4. A resource.
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
7. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
28. An associate degree in nursing.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
40. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. Tag the base runner to get him out.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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