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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
5. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
12. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly.
15. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. A South American river.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
23. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
25. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
27. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
30. A genus of Platalea.
33. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
39. A state in New England.
40. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
44. English monk and scholar (672-735).
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
51. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
52. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
53. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
54. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. An inhabitant of Lappland.
2. English essayist (1775-1834).
3. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
4. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
5. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
6. An accountant certified by the state.
7. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A quantity of no importance.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
24. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
26. A light touch or stroke.
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. Before noon.
31. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
36. (informal) Of the highest quality.
37. Lower in esteem.
41. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
42. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
48. A Mid-Atlantic state.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. Before noon.
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