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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. The capital of Western Samoa.
8. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
11. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
16. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
17. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
18. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A young woman making her debut into society.
30. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
35. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
38. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
39. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
41. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
48. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
50. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
51. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
56. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
57. In bed.
58. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
2. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. A proportion multiplied by 100.
6. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
7. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
8. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. Minor or subordinate.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
33. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
36. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
40. The sound made by a pigeon v 1.
42. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
43. A primeval personification of air and breath.
44. A French abbot.
45. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
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