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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. In the Roman calendar.
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. How long something has existed.
12. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
16. Jordan's port.
17. A city in northern India.
20. An informal term for a father.
21. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
24. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
27. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
32. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
37. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
39. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
44. Take in solid food.
47. Jordan's port.
48. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. (informal) Exceptionally good.
52. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
53. 10 grams.
54. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
55. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Highly excited.
3. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
4. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
5. A person forced to flee from home or country.
6. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
29. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. God of death.
42. In bed.
43. With no effort to conceal.
45. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
46. Any of various units of capacity.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. Before noon.
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