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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. The act of scanning.
8. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
11. A police officer who investigates crimes.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
27. The last (12th) month of the year.
28. The cry made by sheep.
30. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
35. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
38. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
49. Wild and domestic cattle.
51. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A thrusting blow with a knife.
2. A Russian river.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
6. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
7. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
8. A doctor's degree in education.
9. Type genus of the Ranidae.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
34. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
36. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
37. Lower in esteem.
39. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
42. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
43. Toward the mouth or oral region.
44. A quantity of no importance.
46. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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