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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A master's degree in library science.
8. (British) Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. A port city in southwestern Iran.
22. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. A Mid-Atlantic state.
30. A French abbot.
31. God of death.
33. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
34. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A branch of the Tai languages.
43. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
47. A master's degree in business.
48. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
50. Tag the base runner to get him out.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
3. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
4. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
5. The month following March and preceding May.
6. A Russian river.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A genus of Ploceidae.
9. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
10. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. Foul with waste matter.
21. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
35. A genus of Lamnidae.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. Jordan's port.
39. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
41. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. Used in combination to denote the middle.
49. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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