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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown.
8. Tag the base runner to get him out.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
16. An electrically charged particle.
17. Inability to walk.
20. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
26. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
30. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
33. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
37. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
41. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
44. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
47. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
48. Extremely pleasing.
49. An honorary degree in science.
51. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
52. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
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1. A city in northern India.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
5. Put a new facing on, as of a garment.
6. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
7. The capital and largest city of Japan.
8. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
9. Little known Kamarupan languages.
10. An unofficial association of people or groups.
18. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
19. A flexible container with a single opening.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. 1/10 gram.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
37. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
38. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
39. A French abbot.
40. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
41. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
42. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
43. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
45. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
46. A rapid bustling commotion.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
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