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1. A young woman making her debut into society.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. The month following March and preceding May.
12. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Having little physical or spiritual strength.
16. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
17. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
18. A desert in southern Israel.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
27. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
34. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
38. An accountant certified by the state.
40. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
42. Make less active or intense.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
50. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
51. An enclosed space.
52. In bed.
53. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
54. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
55. A small cake leavened with yeast.
56. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
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1. The first light of day.
2. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
5. Take in solid food.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
15. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
19. Large lipoproteins rich in triglycerides.
21. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
24. A decree that prohibits something.
26. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and earth.
37. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
39. A genus of Ploceidae.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
45. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
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