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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
12. An informal term for a father.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
16. A small piece of cloth.
17. Seed of a pea plant.
18. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. Before noon.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
26. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. A superior grade of black tea.
33. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. An informal term for a father.
51. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
52. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
55. An associate degree in applied science.
56. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
2. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. A public promotion of some product or service.
5. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
6. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
7. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
8. Any high mountain.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. Water frozen in the solid state.
23. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. Jordan's port.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. In operation or operational.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
35. A bachelor's degree in science.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. Common Indian weaverbird.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
48. The cry made by sheep.
49. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
50. The bill in a restaurant.
53. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
54. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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