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1. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. Extremely pleasing.
11. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
13. A strong emotion.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
15. Any of various units of capacity.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. The cry made by sheep.
30. State in northeastern India.
33. Of or like a cecum.
35. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
37. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
48. The compass point that is midway between north and northwest.
51. A rapid bustling commotion.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
4. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
5. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
8. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
18. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
26. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
31. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
41. With no effort to conceal.
43. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
45. A light touch or stroke.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. A doctor's degree in religion.
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