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1. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
5. Tag the base runner to get him out.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
12. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
13. A light touch or stroke.
14. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. Found along western Atlantic coast.
19. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
21. Type genus of the Amiidae.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
30. Common Indian weaverbird.
33. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. Before noon.
43. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times.
47. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
51. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
54. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost.
2. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
3. A person who makes use of a thing.
4. Jordan's port.
5. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
18. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
20. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
22. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
35. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
36. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
50. An associate degree in nursing.
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