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1. A state of southwestern India.
4. South African term for `boss'.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
13. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
14. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
15. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
16. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A genus of Platalea.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. A city in east central Texas.
26. A light touch or stroke.
31. Jordan's port.
33. (usually plural) A destructive action.
35. Before noon.
36. Very dark black.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Alternative names for the body of a human being.
41. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
44. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
46. The fatty flesh of eel.
48. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
50. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
53. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
54. A flexible container with a single opening.
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
56. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. Regional and archaic.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. A sodium salt of carbonic acid.
8. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
9. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. A son who has the same first name as his father.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. A state in northwestern North America.
27. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
28. A decree that prohibits something.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. A Mid-Atlantic state.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
34. A unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
40. Made of fir or pine.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. A Loloish language.
43. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
45. The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros.
47. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
50. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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