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1. A French abbot.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
12. Any of various units of capacity.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. A public promotion of some product or service.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
25. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
30. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
34. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
38. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
44. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
54. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. The square of a body of any size of type.
5. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
15. Jordan's port.
17. An informal term for a father.
20. Small depression under the shoulder joint where the arm joins the shoulder.
21. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
22. Cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. A humorous anecdote or remark.
28. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A radioactive transuranic element.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
41. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. Minor or subordinate.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
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