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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
8. A transuranic element that has not been found in nature.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. In bed.
13. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
14. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
15. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
26. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
27. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
30. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
33. Tag the base runner to get him out.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
39. Being one more than one hundred.
44. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
50. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. A fraudulent business scheme.
52. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
53. The cry made by sheep.
54. Type genus of the Majidae.
55. A master's degree in fine arts.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
4. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. (Irish) The sea personified.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
9. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
19. British informal term.
20. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
25. The longest division of geological time.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. God of love and erotic desire.
41. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
42. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
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