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1. A period of time spent sleeping.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
11. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
18. Before noon.
19. Any plant of the genus Erica.
21. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense.
30. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
33. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
45. Take in solid food.
47. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
49. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
50. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. A master's degree in fine arts.
53. Extremely pleasing.
54. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
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1. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
2. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
3. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
5. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
6. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
7. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
8. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
15. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
20. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
22. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
23. Jordan's port.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. Any of various units of capacity.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A doctor's degree in religion.
31. A light touch or stroke.
32. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
41. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. The highest level or degree attainable.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. The sixth month of the civil year.
46. The bill in a restaurant.
48. The residue that remains when something is burned.
51. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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