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1. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
4. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A Hindu prince or king in India.
11. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
12. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
13. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
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. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. A doctor's degree in religion.
22. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
33. By bad luck.
35. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
38. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. Type genus of the Gadidae.
46. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
50. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
52. (British) Your grandmother.
53. The residue that remains when something is burned.
54. An informal conversation.
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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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. An accountant certified by the state.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. North African gerbils.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. Before noon.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. A light touch or stroke.
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. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. A young woman making her debut into society.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. A young eagle.
37. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
39. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
40. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
41. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
43. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
44. A vigorous blow.
47. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
51. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
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