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1. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
4. Highly excited.
8. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. An accidental happening.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A young woman making her debut into society.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
19. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
21. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
24. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
25. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
27. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
32. Used of a single unit or thing.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
38. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
48. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
49. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
51. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
52. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
53. Late time of life.
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1. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. 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.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
8. An informal conversation.
9. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
10. The complete duration of something.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
20. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
22. A radioactive transuranic element.
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
28. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
37. Lower in esteem.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
44. The cry made by sheep.
45. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
46. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
50. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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