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1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
13. In bed.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
16. A quantity of no importance.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
25. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
30. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
35. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Any of various units of capacity.
40. A light touch or stroke.
43. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
45. English monk and scholar (672-735).
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
49. The residue that remains when something is burned.
50. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
51. A Loloish language.
53. A doctor's degree in education.
54. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
55. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
5. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. Obvious and dull.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. English monk and scholar (672-735).
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
21. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
28. A Russian river.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
32. A radioactive transuranic element.
34. Lower in esteem.
35. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
36. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
39. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
46. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
52. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
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