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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. Of southern Europe.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
13. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
14. A sudden short attack.
16. French novelist.
17. An associate degree in nursing.
18. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
28. Possessing qualities befitting a man.
30. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
33. A member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
38. Extremely pleasing.
41. God of wealth and love.
44. By bad luck.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
49. The emotion of hate.
50. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
51. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
52. A gully that is shallower than a ravine.
53. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
6. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
9. An unforeseen obstacle.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
15. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
19. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
23. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
25. Loose or flaccid body fat.
26. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
29. The month following July and preceding September.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. Inhabitant of the island of Cebu.
37. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
39. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
45. Fasten by sewing.
46. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
47. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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