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1. Express or utter with a hiss.
5. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
8. The act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope.
11. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
12. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. Distant in either space or time.
15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
16. The basic unit of money in Albania.
17. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
21. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
31. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
33. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
35. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
36. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
45. An informal term for a father.
47. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
50. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. A unit of pressure.
53. An associate degree in applied science.
54. In bed.
55. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. The chance to speak.
5. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
6. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
18. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
20. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
22. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. Being one more than one hundred.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
39. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
40. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. Fallow deer.
46. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
48. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
49. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
50. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
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