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1. Using speech rather than writing.
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
11. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
12. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
20. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
32. A light touch or stroke.
33. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue.
36. Not only so, but.
39. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
41. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
42. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
45. (possibly Roman) Goddess of horses and mules and asses.
47. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
48. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
51. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
52. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
53. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
2. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The basic unit of money on Malta.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
8. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
9. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
16. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
18. Any of various units of capacity.
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
24. An associate degree in nursing.
25. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
26. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
27. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
31. A French abbot.
34. Coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position.
35. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
37. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
38. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
39. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
40. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
41. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
43. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
49. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
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