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1. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
4. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
7. South African term for `boss'.
11. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
12. A doctor's degree in education.
13. A Hindu prince or king in India.
14. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
15. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
16. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
17. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
20. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
27. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
36. A doctor's degree in religion.
37. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
51. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
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1. In the Roman calendar.
2. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. Make editorial changes (in a text).
6. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
7. (informal) Exceptionally good.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. Slightly open.
10. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
23. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
25. One million periods per second.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
28. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
29. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A town in southwestern Idaho.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
46. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
47. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
49. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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