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1. A man who serves as a sailor.
4. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
14. A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
15. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A light touch or stroke.
19. An accountant certified by the state.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A fraudulent business scheme.
33. Wild and domestic cattle.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
38. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. A decree that prohibits something.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
47. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
55. In bed.
56. An informal term for a father.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. Common Indian weaverbird.
4. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
7. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
8. Advanced in years.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
17. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
21. A state in midwestern United States.
23. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
28. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
39. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
42. Offering fun and gaiety.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
45. (British) Your grandmother.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
53. A doctor's degree in optometry.
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