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1. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
5. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
8. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
11. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
12. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. An associate degree in applied science.
15. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
17. 16 ounces.
20. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
21. A state in northwestern North America.
23. The content of cognition.
25. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A light touch or stroke.
37. 1/1000 gram.
40. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
41. The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary.
44. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
51. A quantity of no importance.
52. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
53. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. The square of a body of any size of type.
5. An expression of greeting.
6. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
7. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
8. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
9. Speaking a Slavic language.
10. Type genus of the Ranidae.
16. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
18. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
19. The cry made by sheep.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
29. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
32. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
33. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
35. Someone whose business is advertising.
36. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. Tag the base runner to get him out.
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
46. The eleventh month of the civil year.
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
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