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1. A French abbot.
5. An enclosed space.
8. A master's degree in fine arts.
11. The mother of your father or mother.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
15. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. (with `in') Guardianship over.
23. A city in Veneto.
25. In bed.
29. Chief port of Yemen.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
44. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
46. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
50. A resource.
51. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
52. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
53. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
4. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
8. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
9. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
10. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
16. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
20. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
21. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
22. Having been read.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. A flexible container with a single opening.
27. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
28. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
31. The cry made by sheep.
35. Having made preparations.
36. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
41. A quantity of no importance.
43. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
45. The airforce of Great Britain.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
49. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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