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1. A very small circular shape.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. Inquire about.
11. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A sudden short attack.
16. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
17. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. Jordan's port.
31. A licensed medical practitioner.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
43. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
45. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. A doctor's degree in education.
53. Any of various small biting flies.
54. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
55. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
15. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
20. A light touch or stroke.
21. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
35. Extremely pleasing.
38. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
39. In bed.
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
41. The face of a timepiece.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
50. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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