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1. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. Material used to daub walls.
8. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. A cgs unit of work or energy.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. Any of various units of capacity.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
37. Not only so, but.
40. Type genus of the Gavidae.
42. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
46. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
47. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
48. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
50. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
51. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
52. Two items of the same kind.
53. Water frozen in the solid state.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
5. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
6. Fiddler crabs.
7. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
8. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
9. A city in northern India.
10. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
18. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
20. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. The residue that remains when something is burned.
34. A genus of Indriidae.
35. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
36. United States baseball player.
38. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
39. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
44. A column of light (as from a beacon).
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
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