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1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
8. Inquire about.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. (anatomy) Any encircling or beltlike structure.
16. (informal) Roused to anger.
17. Before noon.
18. The capital of Croatia.
20. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
22. Jordan's port.
25. The last (12th) month of the year.
26. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
32. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
34. Jordan's port.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
40. South African term for `boss'.
44. Make amends for.
48. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
49. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
50. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
51. A light touch or stroke.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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1. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. A vigorous blow.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
19. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
21. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
23. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
24. Type genus of the Amiidae.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
30. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
42. The sixth month of the civil year.
43. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
45. A master's degree in business.
46. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
47. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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