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1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. A French abbot.
16. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. Any plant of the genus Erica.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
28. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
30. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
38. The sign language used in the United States.
42. Give pleasure to.
46. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
48. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
49. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
50. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. A light touch or stroke.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
5. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
6. Tag the base runner to get him out.
7. On or toward the lee.
8. The capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan.
9. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
10. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
20. A Hindu prince or king in India.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
27. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
29. 35th President of the United States.
31. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
32. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
35. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
40. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
41. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
43. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
44. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
45. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
47. The cry made by sheep.
51. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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