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1. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
5. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
7. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
11. Offering fun and gaiety.
12. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
13. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
14. Beyond what is natural.
15. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. Jordan's port.
20. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
22. (informal) Of the highest quality.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
32. A flexible container with a single opening.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. An associate degree in nursing.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
51. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
52. A light touch or stroke.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
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1. Largest known toad species.
2. Very fertile.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
5. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
6. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
9. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
10. The act of scanning.
16. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A sudden short attack.
43. The template for protein synthesis.
44. An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).
46. The bill in a restaurant.
47. A state of southwestern India.
50. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
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