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1. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
4. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
13. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
14. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
15. The central area of a church.
16. Minor or subordinate.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
28. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
47. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
50. Extremely pleasing.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
53. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
54. An informal term for a father.
55. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
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1. Danish philologist whose work on Old Norse pioneered in the field of comparative linguistics (1787-1832).
2. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A group of girls or young women.
7. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
8. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
29. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. A state in northwestern North America.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
37. A son who has the same first name as his father.
41. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
42. A French abbot.
43. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
44. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. Derive or receive pleasure from.
48. 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.
49. Water frozen in the solid state.
52. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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