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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
7. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
13. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. A small cake leavened with yeast.
17. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
18. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
20. A decree that prohibits something.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. 10 grams.
32. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
33. A light touch or stroke.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
48. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
49. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
50. A notable achievement.
51. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
5. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
6. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
7. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
8. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
16. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. An informal term for a father.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. A landlocked republic in central Africa.
36. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
38. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
39. Russian physicist (1895-1971).
40. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
41. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
42. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
43. A quantity of no importance.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
46. The cry made by sheep.
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