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1. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
7. (Middle East) An ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup.
11. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
12. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
13. A shade of blue tinged with green.
14. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A course of conduct.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
24. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. The cry made by sheep.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
39. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
45. Informal terms for a mother.
47. An informal term for a father.
48. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
49. In bed.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
54. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
55. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
56. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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1. One of the common people.
2. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. Strike suddenly and with force.
8. Jordan's port.
9. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
10. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
18. Jordan's port.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
29. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
30. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. An informal term for a father.
42. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
46. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
50. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
52. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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