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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Offering fun and gaiety.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
13. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
14. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
16. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
18. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
23. Wood of a sumac.
25. (informal) Of the highest quality.
26. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
27. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
29. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
36. A genus of Ploceidae.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
50. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
53. A rapid bustling commotion.
54. Divulge information or secrets.
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1. An informal term for a father.
2. Advanced in years.
3. The cry made by sheep.
4. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
5. A state in northwestern North America.
6. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. Squash bugs.
8. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
17. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
21. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
22. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
37. In bed.
38. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. God of love and erotic desire.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
46. A resource.
47. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
51. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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