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1. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
4. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. An electrically charged particle.
12. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
15. In bed.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. Colloquial British abbreviation.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
30. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
31. Not easy.
33. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
44. Jordan's port.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
51. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. An associate degree in applied science.
54. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. Slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes.
3. Either extremity of something that has length.
4. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. A kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. By bad luck.
18. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
19. A flexible container with a single opening.
21. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
25. God of wealth and love.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. 1/1000 gram.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A telegram sent abroad.
36. An informal term for a father.
38. A Loloish language.
39. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A French abbot.
43. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. The cry made by sheep.
49. A state in midwestern United States.
50. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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