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1. A formal dance held for a school class toward the end of the academic year.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
12. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
13. The money risked on a gamble.
14. (dialect) A short straight stick of wood.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
17. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Again but in a new or different way.
24. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
26. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. How long something has existed.
31. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. The residue that remains when something is burned.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
41. The cry made by sheep.
43. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
46. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
48. A fraudulent business scheme.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. The fatty flesh of eel.
55. An audiotape recording of sound.
56. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
57. Used of a single unit or thing.
58. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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1. Earlier than the present time.
2. American professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948).
3. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
4. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. A city in central New York.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
36. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
38. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
41. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
43. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
44. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
45. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
47. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
49. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
50. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
54. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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