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1. A French abbot.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. An informal term for a father.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
15. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
17. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
22. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
24. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. The residue that remains when something is burned.
30. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
32. Moderate or restrain.
34. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
48. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
49. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
50. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
51. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
52. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
4. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
5. A radioactive transuranic element.
6. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
7. The cry made by sheep.
8. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
9. In bed.
10. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
16. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
18. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
19. Jordan's port.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
28. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
31. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
33. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A quantity of no importance.
43. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
44. Preserve of crushed fruit.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
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