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1. The cry made by sheep.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Not only so, but.
15. A young woman making her debut into society.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
19. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
34. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
38. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
44. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
46. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
47. In a competent capable manner.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. The specified day of the month.
51. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
52. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
53. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. In bed.
3. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
6. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
9. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
20. A radioactive transuranic element.
21. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
22. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
23. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
26. A light touch or stroke.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
33. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.
35. Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust.
36. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
37. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
43. The seed of the cereal grass.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. An informal term for a father.
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