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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. An accountant certified by the state.
7. Informal terms for a mother.
11. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
12. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
13. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
14. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
15. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
16. A Hindu prince or king in India.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
20. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
23. A young woman making her debut into society.
26. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
27. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
33. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
35. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
42. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
45. A city in northern India.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Made of fir or pine.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
52. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
53. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
54. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
5. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
6. An associate degree in applied science.
7. 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.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. Type genus of the Majidae.
10. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
18. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
21. Jordan's port.
22. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
24. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
25. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
28. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Advanced in years.
40. Toward the mouth or oral region.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
43. Common Indian weaverbird.
44. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
51. An uproarious party.
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