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1. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
4. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
8. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
11. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
12. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
13. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
14. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
18. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
22. A person forced to flee from home or country.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
27. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. The sign language used in the United States.
42. Lower in esteem.
46. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. A unit of pressure.
54. A light touch or stroke.
55. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
56. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
4. A city in the European part of Russia.
5. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
6. A quantity of no importance.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
15. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
16. An informal term for a father.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. A genus of Ploceidae.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. The cry made by sheep.
40. Stalk of a moss capsule.
41. Young sheep.
43. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
44. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
45. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
47. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
52. A state in northwestern North America.
53. Being one more than one.
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