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1. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
4. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
8. Not reflecting light.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. A shape that sags.
17. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
18. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
28. Having or localized centrally at a focus.
32. (informal) Exceptionally good.
34. That is to say.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
51. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
52. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
53. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
54. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
55. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
56. A flexible container with a single opening.
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1. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
2. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
3. A light touch or stroke.
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
21. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
23. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
24. A radioactive transuranic element.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
40. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
41. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. Common Indian weaverbird.
44. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
49. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
50. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
51. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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