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1. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. Late time of life.
11. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
12. A quantity of no importance.
13. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
14. Not only so, but.
15. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
17. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. A state in the western United States.
32. Offering fun and gaiety.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
36. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
38. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
44. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
46. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
50. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
51. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
52. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
53. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
54. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
55. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
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1. Common Indian weaverbird.
2. In bed.
3. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
16. A Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan.
19. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
29. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
30. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
31. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. An Eskimo hut.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
42. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
43. The sixth month of the civil year.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
49. 10 grams.
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