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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. An enclosed space.
7. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
11. How long something has existed.
12. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
15. A quantity of no importance.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. 16 ounces.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. An associate degree in applied science.
43. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
47. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
48. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
50. A flexible container with a single opening.
51. A slight amount or degree of difference.
52. A city of central China.
53. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
7. A decree that prohibits something.
8. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
9. An informal term for a father.
10. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
17. Jordan's port.
18. Call upon in supplication.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
27. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
28. A state in midwestern United States.
30. An indication of approved or superior status.
31. A light touch or stroke.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
37. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
38. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
42. A shape that sags.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
46. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. The second largest state.
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