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1. Inquire about.
4. A light touch or stroke.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
11. The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
12. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
13. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
14. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
19. Take in solid food.
21. Informal terms for a mother.
22. (informal) Rural and uncouth.
24. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
25. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
35. An associate degree in applied science.
37. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
41. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
43. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
46. Towards the side away from the wind.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
50. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
51. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
52. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
53. A state in midwestern United States.
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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. The muscular back part of the shank.
3. A member of a Mayan people of north central Guatemala.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
7. Singing jazz.
8. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
9. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
10. English monk and scholar (672-735).
18. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
26. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
27. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
28. A state in northwestern North America.
30. An enclosed space.
33. Engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring).
34. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
39. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
40. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
42. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. Before noon.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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