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1. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
5. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. An Eskimo hut.
12. A public promotion of some product or service.
13. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
17. Before noon.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
20. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
26. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. A holy war by Muslims against unbelievers.
34. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A light touch or stroke.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
53. A doctor's degree in education.
54. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
55. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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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. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. An honorary law degree.
4. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
6. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
7. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
15. A master's degree in education.
21. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
23. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
27. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. In bed.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
35. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
39. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
41. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
43. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
46. A slight amount or degree of difference.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
52. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
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