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1. The airforce of Great Britain.
4. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
18. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
24. 35th President of the United States.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
28. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
30. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
33. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
35. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
39. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
42. Advanced in years.
43. A rapid bustling commotion.
46. Strike suddenly and with force.
47. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
49. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
50. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
2. Type genus of the Anatidae.
3. Extremely pleasing.
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. 10 grams.
22. A light touch or stroke.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Using speech rather than writing.
34. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
35. Extremely pleasing.
36. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
41. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
44. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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