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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
12. The cry made by sheep.
13. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
18. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
20. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
21. The highest level or degree attainable.
24. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
27. An associate degree in applied science.
28. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
38. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
41. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
47. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
48. A doctor's degree in education.
49. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. In bed.
3. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
6. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
9. Of or like a cecum.
10. (formerly) A writing tablet made of slate.
15. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. A person forced to flee from home or country.
19. Flat tableland with steep edges.
22. A telegram sent abroad.
23. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A radioactive transuranic element.
32. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
35. A baton used by a magician or water diviner.
36. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
37. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
42. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
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