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1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. Extremely pleasing.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. Strip the skin off.
14. A small piece of cloth.
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
24. (informal) Of the highest quality.
25. The sixth month of the civil year.
27. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
31. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
38. Tag the base runner to get him out.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
45. An awkward stupid person.
47. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
50. A local computer network for communication between computers.
51. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
52. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
53. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
54. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
55. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
56. An associate degree in applied science.
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1. A city in northern India.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
4. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. A master's degree in fine arts.
8. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
9. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
10. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
18. A native of ancient Troy.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
30. An associate degree in nursing.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
40. South African term for `boss'.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
44. Type genus of the Anatidae.
46. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
48. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
49. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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